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