Past John Brubaker Award Winners
2022-2023: Zachary Lewis
For his article, Committing to the Common Good: Reframing Student Success Using Catholic Social Teaching, which appeared in the September 2022 issue of Catholic Library World.
2021-2022: Sarah Burke Cahalan and Kayla Harris
For their article, Mary, Undoer of Knots: Unraveling Best Practices for Unwanted Donations and Deaccessioned Collection Items in a Catholic Library, which appeared in the September 2020 issue of Catholic Library World.
2020: David C. Miller
For his article, Armand-Gaston Camus: Catholic Scholar, Revolutionary, and Founder of the National Archives of France, which appeared in the December 2019 (vol. 90, no. 2) issue of Catholic Library World.
2019: Marty Miller
For her article, Sacred vs. Profane in The Great War: A Neutral's Indictment: Louis Raemaekers's Use of Religious Imagery in Adoration of the Magi and Our Lady of Antwerp, which appeared in the September 2018 (vol. 89, no. 1) issue of Catholic Library World.
2018: Kimberly Kowal and Seth Meehan
For their article, Partnerships on Campus: Roles and Impacts in Developing a New Online Research Resource at Boston College, which appeared in the September 2016 (vol. 87, no. 1) issue of Catholic Library World.
2017: Jillian M. Slater Ewalt
For her article, Archival Exhibits as Interdisciplinary Teaching Tools, which appeared in the September 2015 (vol. 86, no. 1) issue of Catholic Library World.
2016: Sandra Collins
For her article, A Wandering Aramean: ATLA and the Scholar of Eastern Christianity, which appeared in the September 2014 (vol. 85, no. 1) issue of Catholic Library World.
2015: Patrick J. Hayes
For his article, New Advances in Franciscan Studies: Gaining on the Poor Man of Assisi, which appeared in the September 2013 (vol. 84, no. 1) issue of Catholic Library World.
2014: Tatiana Nikolova-Houston
For her two articles on Slavic Medieval Manuscripts. Part I: Origins, Preservation, and Access, which appeared in Catholic Library World, vol. 83, no. 1 (September 2012) and Part II: Historical, Archival, and Aesthetical Value and Visibility, which was published in vol. 83, no. 2 (December 2012).
2013 Leslie Woodcock Tentler
For her article, A Decidedly Personal Look at the Field: American Catholic History Today which appeared in the March 2012 issue of Catholic Library World.
2012 Donald Beagle
For his article, Integrating Digital and Archival Sources in Historical Research: Recovering Lost Knowledge About a Catholic Poet of the Civil War, which appeared in the March 2011 issue of Catholic Library World.
2011 Fernanda Perrone
For her article, Whose History Is It? Doing Research in the Archives of Women's Religious Communities, which appeared in vol. 80, No. 1 (September 2009) of Catholic Library World.
2010 Paul M. Pearson
For his article, Thomas Merton, Archivist which appeared in the December 2008 issue of CLW.
2009 Margaret M. McGuiness
For her article, American Catholic Studies: The Field and the Journal which appeared in the September 2007 issue of CLW.
2008 Carmine J. Bell
For her article, Libraries and Human Rights Education which appeared in the December 2006 issue of CLW.
2007 Malachy R. McCarthy
For his article, Navigating the Labyrinth: Understanding and Getting the Most from Catholic Archives, which appeared in the December 2005 issue of CLW.
2006 Vincent P. Tinerella
For his article, The American Catholic Effort to Preserve European Manuscript Collections after World War II, which appeared in the March 2005 issue of CLW.
2005 Helge Clausen
For his article, Miss d’Auchamp, the Catholic Library Association and Niels Steensen’s Library in Copenhagen, which appeared in the December 2003 issue of CLW.
2004 Herman A. Tavani
For his article, Information Wants to Be Shared: An Alternative Framework for Approaching Intellectual Property Disputes in an Information Age, which appeared in the December 2002 issue of CLW.
2003 Kathleen de la Peña McCook
For her article, Social Justice, Personalism, and the Practice of Librarianship, which appeared in the December 2001 issue of CLW.
2002 Brendan A. Rapple
For his article, The Learning Library, which appeared in the June 2001 issue of CLW.
2001 Reverend Thomas J. Shelley
For his article, Whatever Happened to Church History which appeared in the December 1999 issue of CLW.
2000 Ronald Patkus
For his article, Creating a Digital Archive of the Pre-Vatican Church in America, which appeared in the March 1999 issue of CLW.
1999 Patrick Metress
For his article, Indexing and Abstracting Catholic Periodicals, which appeared in the June 1998 issue of CLW.
1998 William Brace
For his article, The Changing World of Government Documents, which appeared in the December 1996 issue of CLW.
1997 Michael T. Krieger
For his article, Developing a Collection for Name Authority Work in Catholic Literature, which appeared in the September 1995 issue of CLW.
1996 Violet H. Harada and Margaret Nakamura
For their article, Information Searching Across the Curriculum: Literacy Skills for the 90’s and Beyond, which appeared in the October-December 1994 issue of CLW.
1992 Sheila S. Intner
For her article, The Technical Services: the Future is Now, the Future is Us, which appeared in the May-June 1991 issue of CLW.
1991 Mary E. Gallagher, SSJ
For her article, Daring Advocates, Formidable Adversaries, which appeared in the September-October 1989 issue of CLW.
1990 Maryilyn Berg Iarusso
For her article, How to Promote the Love of Reading, which appeared in the March-April 1989 issue of CLW.
1989 Maureen Kennedy, OP
For her article, Resourcing the Emerging Laity, which appeared in the July-August 1987 issue of CLW.
1988 Roy M. Gasnick, OFM
For his article, Ministry of the Word which appeared in the July-August 1986 issue of CLW.
1987 Margaret E. Chisholm
For her article, The Librarian As Educator, which appeared in the November-December 1985 issue of CLW.
1986 Milton Meltzer
For his article, Freedom and Peace: A Challenge, which appeared in the July-August 1984 issue of CLW.
1985 Melvin R. George
For his article, The Impact of Technology on Libraries, which appeared in the February 1984 issue of CLW.
1984 R. Brantley Cagle, Jr.
For his article, Reference Services to the Developmentally Disabled: Normalization of Access, which appeared in the February 1983 issue of CLW.
1983 Carolyn Harris
For her article, Brittle Books: A Way of Life, which appeared in the March 1982 issue of CLW.
1982 Henry Drennan
For his article, Libraries and Literacy Education, which appeared in the April 1981 issue of CLW.
1981 F. Wilfred Lancaster
For his article, The Future of the Librarian Lies Outside the Library, which appeared in the April 1980 issue of CLW.
1980 Lillian B. Wehmeyer
For her article, Media and Learning – Present and Future, which appeared in the November-December 1978 issue of CLW.
1979 Mary Margrabe
For her article, The Library Media Specialist and Total Curriculum Involvement, which appeared in the February 1978 issue of CLW.