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MLA Awards and Honors

Marcia C. Noyes Award

The Noyes Award is the highest professional distinction of the Medical Library Association. The award was established in 1947 and recognizes a career which has resulted in lasting, outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship.

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  • 2008: Rick B. Forsman
  • 2007: Betsy Humphreys
  • 2006: none awarded
  • 2005: Judith Messerle
  • 2004: Nancy Lorenzi, Ph.D.
  • 2003: Naomi C. Broering
  • 2002: Robert M. Braude, Ph.D.
  • 2001: Alison Bunting
  • 2000: Rachael K. Anderson
  • 1999: T. Mark Hodges
  • 1998: Fred W. Roper, Ph.D.
  • 1997: Erich Meyerhoff
  • 1996: Lucretia W. McClure
  • 1995: Lois Ann Colaianni
  • 1994: Erika Love
  • 1993: Nina W. Matheson
  • 1992: Susan Crawford, Ph.D.
  • 1991: Irwin H. Pizer*
  • 1990: David Bishop* (posthumous)
  • 1989: Joseph Leiter, Ph.D.
  • 1988: Gertrude Lamb, Ph.D.
  • 1986: Ursula H. Poland
  • 1985: Thelma Charen
  • 1984: Frederick G. Kilgour
  • 1983: Harold Bloomquist*
  • 1982: Samuel W. Hitt
  • 1980: Helen Yast
  • 1978: Emilie V. Wiggins
  • 1977: Alfred N. Brandon*
  • 1976: Mildred C. Langner
  • 1974: Louise Darling*
  • 1973: Martin M. Cummings, M.D.
  • 1972: Thomas P. Fleming
  • 1971: Estelle Brodman, Ph.D.
  • 1970: none awarded
  • 1969: Scott Adams*
  • 1968: Gertrude Annan*
  • 1967: none awarded
  • 1966: Thomas Keys*
  • 1965: Mildred McMillan Jordan*
  • 1964: none awarded
  • 1963: Stanislaw Konopka, M.D.
  • 1962: none awarded
  • 1961: Frank Bradway Rogers, M.D.*
  • 1960: Leslie Thomas Morton
  • 1959: none awarded
  • 1958: William D. Postell*
  • 1957: Colonel Harold Wellington Jones
  • 1956: none awarded
  • 1955: none awarded
  • 1954: Janet Doe*
  • 1953: Mary Louise Marshall*
  • 1952: none awarded
  • 1951: James F. Ballard*
  • 1950: none awarded
  • 1949: Eileen R. Cunningham*

*Deceased


For more information on the procedures for awards and honors nominations or applications, contact Lisa C. Fried, 312.419.9094, x28.