Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and Technology

The Award of Merit is bestowed by the Association for Information Science and Technology.^[1] It is an annual prize to an individual for a lifetime of achievement that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. The Award of Merit was first given in 1964 to Hans Peter Luhn.

Karen Spärck Jones-2002

Frederick G. Kilgour-1979

Eugene Garfield- 1975

Claire Kelly Schultz-1980

Mortimer Taube -1966

Name	Date	Major accomplishments
Marcia Lei Zeng	2024	Professor of Information Science at Kent State University[2]
Andrew Dillon	2023	V.M. Daniel Professor of Information in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin.[3]
Harry Bruce	2022	Dean, University of Washington Information School
Steve Sawyer	2021	Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Diane H. Sonnenwald	2020	Theory Development in the Information Sciences. [4]
Christine Borgman	2019	Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World [5]
Toni Carbo	2018	Executive Director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
Thomas D. Wilson	2017	"Fifty Years of Information Behaviour Research."[6]
Peter Ingwersen	2016	The Turn - Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context.[7]
Michael E.D. Koenig	2015	Knowledge Management (Km) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice. [8]
Marjorie M.K. Hlava	2014	President, Access Innovations.[9]
Carol C. Kuhlthau	2013	Guided Inquiry : Learning in the 21st Century. [10]
Michael Buckland	2012	Information and Society.[11]
Gary Marchionini	2011	Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities.[12]
Linda C. Smith	2010	Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith. [13]
Carol Tenopir	2009	Communication Patterns of Engineers.[14]
Clifford Lynch	2008	Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.
Donald H. Kraft	2007	Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies;[15] editor Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology for 24 years.
Blaise Cronin	2006	Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.
Marcia Bates	2005	Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences[16]
Howard D. White	2004	“Combining Bibliometrics Information Retrieval and Relevance Theory."[17]
Nicholas J. Belkin	2003	Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. [18]
Karen Spärck Jones	2002	"A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval."[19]
Patrick G. Wilson	2001	Two Kinds of Power; an Essay on Bibliographical Control.[20]
Donald R. Swanson	2000	Swanson Linking;[21] Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.
José-Marie Griffiths	1999	V.P., board directors, King Research, Inc.
Henry Small	1998	Institute for Scientific Information; Bibliometrics of Basic Research.[22] "Macrolevel changes in the structure of co-citation clusters."[23]
Dagobert Soergel	1997	Best Information Science Book of the Year-1987-Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems.[24]
Jean Tague-Sutcliffe	1996	Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective.[25]
Tefko Saracevic	1995	“A Study of Information Seeking and Retrieving. III. Searchers Searches and Overlap.” [26] Editor-in Chief Information Processing & Management (1985-2008).
Harold Borko	1994	"Artificial intelligence and expert systems research and their possible impact on information."[27] American Society for Information Science, president 1966.
Robert M. Hayes	1993	Handbook of Data Processing for Libraries.[28]
Robert Saxton Taylor	1992	The Making of a Library; the Academic Library in Transition.[29]“Value-Added Processes in the Information Life Cycle.” [30]
Roger K. Summit	1991	Founder of Dialog Information Services, "father of modern online searching."
Pauline Atherton Cochrane	1990	Papers in Honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane.[31] One of the most highly cited authors in the field of library and information sciences.[32]
Gerard Salton	1989	Dynamic Information and Library Processing.[33]ACM Fellow.[34]
F. Wilfrid Lancaster	1988	Toward Paperless Information Systems.;[35] Most cited in 1970s- 1990s.[36]
Donald W. King	1987	President of ASIS; Key Papers in the Economics of Information.[37]
Bernard M. Fry	1986	Founding editor, Government Publications Review; Festschrift;[38]Government Publications: Their Role in the National Program for Library and Information Services. [39]
Robert L. Chartrand	1985	"Computer Technology and the Congress."[40]
Joseph Becker and Martha E. Williams	1984	Becker, “Communications Networks for Libraries.” [41] and Williams,“Education and Training for Online Use of Data Bases.” [42]
Dale B.Baker	1983	Director of Chemical Abstracts.[43]
Andrew A. Aines	1982	Director of COSATI [44]
Herbert S. White	1981	Festschrift in Honour of Herbert S. White[45]
Claire Kelly Schultz	1980	President of the American Documentation Institute, 1962."Claire Kelly Schultz (1924-2015)."[46]
Frederick Kilgour	1979	President of OCLC; Legion of Merit for intelligence work during World War II, “History of Library Computerization.”,[47]American Library Association Honorary Membership.
Calvin Mooers	1978	Coined the term "information retrieval." "A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval."[48]
Allen Kent	1977	Best Information Science Book of the Year- 1979-The Structure and Governance of Library Networks.;[49] Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. [50]
Laurence Heilprin	1976	"Laurence B. Heilprin, 1906-1993.[51]
Eugene Garfield	1975	Founder of bibliometrics and scientometrics and Science Citation Index; A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield. [52]
Manfred Kochen	1974	Founding Editor of Human Systems Management.[53]
Jesse Shera	1973	Documentation and the organization of knowledge;American Library Association Honorary Membership[54] Papers in honor of Jesse Hauk Shera. [55]
Phyllis Richmond	1972	‘‘Hierarchical Definition;’’[56]"The Art and Science of Classification: Phyllis Allen Richmond, 1921–1997."[57]
Jerrold Orne	1971	Chaired Z39 Committee, precursor to National Information Standards Organization, Director University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[58][59]
Cyril W. Cleverdon	1970	Cranfield Experiments; "Cyril W. Cleverdon."[60]
No Award	1969
Carlos Cuadra	1968	Best Information Science Book Award-1969- for Annual Review of Information Science and Technology; “Role of the Private Sector in the Development and Improvement of Library and Information Services."[61]
Robert Fairthorne	1967	"Robert Fairthorne and the Scope of Information Science."[62]“Robert A. Fairthorne, a Biographical Sketch.”[63]
Mortimer Taube	1966	“Theoretical Principles of Information Organization in Librarianship.” [64]"On the Shoulder of Giants."[65]
Charles P. Bourne	1965	“Cost Analysis and Simulation Procedures for the Evaluation of Large Information Systems.”[66]
Hans Peter Luhn	1964	Luhn algorithm; H.P. Luhn: Pioneer of Information Science.[67]