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Bob Williams Paper Award Recipients

Established in 2009 as the History of Information Science and Technology Fund Awards, the grant and paper awards were collectively renamed the Bob Williams Awards in 2017.

The recipients of the Bob Williams Paper Awards Grant are:

Year

Recipient

2024

Not Awarded

2023

Geoffrey Yeo for “Let Us See What Is Meant by the Word Recorde”: Concepts of Record from the Middle Ages to the Early 20th Century"

2022

Zack Lischer-Katz for "The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015"

2021

Not Awarded

2020

Rodrigo Ochigame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for “Informatics of the Oppressed”

2019

Not awarded

2018

Brian Dobreski and Barbara Kwaśnik, for “Changing Depictions of Persons in Library Practice: Spirits, Pseudonyms, and Human Books”;
and Alex Poole, Drexel University, for ”Harold T. Pinkett and the Lonely Crusade of African American Archivists in the Twentieth Century”

2017

Alex Poole, Drexel University, for “Could my dark hands break through the dark shadow?” The North Carolina Negro Library Association’s War on Information Poverty in the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955″

2016

Gábor Szommer, Hungarian independent researcher, for “Parallel Expansions: The Role of Information during the Formative Years of the English East India Company”

2015

Not awarded

2014

Not awarded

2013

Xiaohua Zhu, University of Tennessee, for “Who Had Access to Juris?: A Failed Case of Open Access”

2012

Not awarded

2011

Not awarded

2010

Sarah Buchanan, UCLA, for “‘Name’s the Same?’: The Los Angeles Chapter of ASIST upon its Semicentennial”

2009

Rachel Plotnick, doctoral student in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University, for “Computers, Systems Theory and the Making of a Wired Hospital: A History of Technicon Medical Information System, 1964-1987.”