Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize

The Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize, named after librarian Miriam Braverman, is sponsored by the Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG).

PLG Braverman Award Winner, Maggie Grabmeier, with PLG Award Coordinator, Mark Hudson 2023

The intent of the award is "to celebrate Miriam's spirit of activism and faith in the power of people's collective social justice efforts and inspire future generations of librarians."[1] The Prize is awarded each year for the best graduate student paper about some aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship. Papers related to archivists, archives, and archival work are also eligible.

Every winning paper is published in the Progressive Librarian journal.[2]

Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize dinner 2017



Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize Winner Date Title University
Maggie Grabmeier 2023 "Out of Bounds: Sexual Harassment from Patrons in the Public Library" University of Wisconsin-Madison
Daniel Clarkson Fisher 2022 "A Promised (but Ultimately Unreachable) Land: the Fallacy of "Political Neutrality" Exemplified by Fmr. U.S. President Barack Obama's Appearance at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition." University of Western Ontario.
Eli Holliday 2021 "Death to the Professional: Re-envisioning Labour in the Public Library" University of Toronto
Ashley Huot 2021 "Prison Zines: Relations, Communication, and Records." University of Alberta
2020. Competition cancelled due to COVID-19.
Yoonhee Lee 2019 "Towards universal access to knowledge: the invisible labor of digitizing." University of Toronto
Alessandra Seiter 2018 “Libraries, Power, and Justice: Toward a Sociohistorically Informed Intellectual Freedom.” Simmons College
Matthew Weirick Johnson 2017 “Personal Health Data, Surveillance, & Biopolitics: Toward a Personal Health Data Information Literacy.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sarah Kortemeier 2016 “I'll Drown My Book: Visibility, Gender, and Classification in The University of Arizona Poetry Center Library.” University of Arizona
Kyle Shockey 2015 “Intellectual Freedom Is Not Social Justice: The Symbolic Capital of Intellectual Freedom in ALA Accreditation and LIS Curricula.” Indiana University
Denise Scott 2014 “Deconstructing the ‘Books for Boys’ Discourse.” University of Toronto
Emily Lawrence 2013 “Loud Hands in the Library: Neurodiversity in LIS Theory & Practice." iSchool at University of Maryland - College Park
Sara Zettervall 2012 “Through a Distant Lens: Visions of Native Hawaiians in Children’s Picture Books." St. Catherine University
Tiffany Chow 2011 "Design Implications: How Space Can Transform the Library and Its Public." University of Michigan
Kristen Hogan 2010 "'Breaking Secrets' in the Catalog: Proposing the Black Queer Studies Collection at the University of Texas at Austin." University of Texas, Austin
Sarah Clark 2009 “Marketing the Library? Why Librarians Should Focus on Stewardship and Advocacy.” University of California, Los Angeles
Miriam Rigby 2008 "JUST THROW IT ALL AWAY! (and other thoughts I have had that may bar me from a career in archiving)." University of Washington.
Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme 2007 "Towards a Progressive Discourse on Community Needs Assessment: perspectives from collaborative ethnography and action research." Simmons College
Joseph Deodato 2006 "Becoming Responsible Mediators: The Application of Postmodern Perspectives to Archival Arrangement and Description.” University of Maryland
Jennifer Downey 2005 Public Library Collection Development Issues Regarding the Information Needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Patrons." San Jose State University
No Award
Michelle Sipley 2003 "Operation Patriot Act: The Role of School Libraries in Promoting a Free and Informed Society." Syracuse University
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References

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  1. ^ "Call for Submissions: The Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize". Progressive Librarians Guild. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. ^ Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship is a forum for critical perspectives in Library and Information Science (LIS), featuring articles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues. http://progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL_Jnl/jnl_about.shtml