Beta Phi Mu Award

The Beta Phi Mu Award is an annual prize recognizing an individual for distinguished service to education for librarianship. First bestowed in 1954, Award recipients include various prominent leaders in the field of librarianship.^[1] The Award is sponsored by the international honor society Beta Phi Mu (ΒΦΜ or βφμ), founded in 1948 to promote scholastic achievement among library and information science students.

The printer's mark of Aldus Manutius, the dolphin and anchor seen here on a 1558 title page, serves as the insignia of Beta Phi Mu.

Ching-chih Chen-Beta Phi Mu Award-2008

Charles C. Williamson- Beta Phi Mu Award- 1964

Gretchen Knief Schenk - Beta Phi Mu Award-1955

Beta Phi Mu Award	Date	University
Natalie Taylor [2]	2025	University of South Florida School of Information
Danielle Maurici-Pollock	2024	Simmons University School of Library and Information Science
Emily Knox[3]	2023	University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
No Award	2022
Marcia Rapchak[4]	2021	University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
John M. Budd[5]	2020	School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri
Mirah J. Dow.	2019.	School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University.
Clara Chu	2018	Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[6]
Em Claire Knowles	2017	School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
Annabel K. Stephens	2016	School of Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi
Beverly P. Lynch	2015	Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Beth M. Paskoff	2014	School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Aversa	2013	School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama
Mary Wagner	2012	Library and Information Science, St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN)
Leslie S.J. Farmer	2011	California State University Long Beach
Ken Haycock	2010	San Jose State University
C. James Schmidt	2009	San Jose State University[7]
Ching-chih Chen	2008	Simmons College, Boston [8]
Barbara Immroth	2007	University of Texas at Austin School of Information[9]
Lois Mai Chan	2006	University of Kentucky, School of Library and Information Science[10]
Lynn Akin	2005	School of Library and Information Studies.Texas Woman's University
Linda C. Smith[11]	2004	University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Kathleen de la Peña McCook	2003	School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida
Leigh S. Estabrook	2002	University of Illinois School of Information Sciences[12]
Lotsee Patterson	2001	University of Oklahoma[13]
Shirley Fitzgibbons	2000	Indiana University
Donald William Krummel	1999	University of Illinois School of Information Sciences[14]
Elizabeth W. Stone	1998	Department of Library and Information Science Catholic University
Charles Bunge	1997	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert N. Broadus	1996	Northern Illinois University
Elizabeth Futas	1995.	University of Rhode Island
Jane B. Robbins	1994	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathryn Luther Henderson	1993	University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Guy Garrison	1992	Drexel University
Edward G. Holley[15]	1991	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Robert D. Stueart	1990	Simmons College, Boston
Charles D. Patterson	1989	Louisiana State University[16]
Samuel Rothstein	1988	University of British Columbia
Sarah K. Vann[17]	1987	University of Hawaii
Agnes Lytton Reagan	1986	American Library Association Accreditation Officer
Robert M. Hayes	1985	University of California Los Angeles
Jane Anne Hannigan	1984	Columbia University, Rutgers University
J. Periam Danton	1983	University of California, Berkeley
David K. Berninghausen	1982	University of Minnesota
Haynes McMullen	1981	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virginia Lacy Jones	1980	Atlanta University
Conrad Rawski	1979	Case Western Reserve University
Frances E. Henne	1978	Columbia University
Russell E. Bidlack [18]	1977	University of Michigan
Carolyn Whitenack	1976	Purdue University
Kenneth R. Shaffer	1975	Simmons College
Martha Boaz	1974	University of Southern California
Lester Asheim[19]	1973	University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Margaret E. Monroe	1972	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leon Carnovsky	1971	University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Raynard C. Swank	1970	University of California Berkeley
Ethel M. Fair [20]	1969	Douglass College Library School- Rutgers
Sarah R. Reed [21]	1968	School of Library Science, Emporia State University
Louis Shores	1967	Florida State University
James J. Kortendick[22][23]	1966	Department of Library and Information Science. Catholic University of America
Jesse H. Shera	1965	University of Chicago Graduate Library School, Case Western Reserve University
Charles C. Williamson[24]	1964	Columbia University
Ernest J. Reece [25]	1963	Columbia University
Florrinell F. Morton	1962	Louisiana State University
Robert L. Gitler [26]	1961	Columbia University
Louis Round Wilson	1960	University of Chicago Graduate Library School, University of North Carolina
Anita Miller Hostetter	1959	Chief, Office of Education for Librarianship and secretary, Board of Education, American Library Association
Florence Van Hoesen [27]	1958	Syracuse University
Lucy M. Crissey	1957	Columbia University. Contributor to education for librarianship section of The Public Library Inquiry.[28]
Margaret I Rufsvold[29]	1956	Indiana University.
Gretchen Knief Schenk	1955	Defender of Grapes of Wrath,[30][31] advocate of library desegregation.[32]
Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness[33]	1954	University of Michigan

Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness, first recipient of the Beta Phi Mu Award in 1954, was dean of the University of Michigan Library Science Department from 1940 to 1964.