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MLA Awards and Honors

MLA Award for Distinguished Public Service

The MLA Award for Distinguished Public Service was established in 1988 to honor persons whose exemplary actions have served to advance the health, welfare, and intellectual freedom of the public. Awardees are selected by the Board of Directors only on occasions when the merits of a nominee clearly recommend recognition by MLA. Nomineees are not limited to members of the library and information sciences profession nor to the association's membership.

Award Recipients

2011: The Friends of the National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland
2008: The Honorable David Obey
U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin
2004: The Honorable Arlen Specter
U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania
2003: The Honorable Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senate, Vermont
2002: The Honorable Harry Reid
U.S. Senate, Nevada
2000: The Honorable Rick Boucher
U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia
1998: The Honorable Henry Bonilla
U.S. House of Representatives, Texas
1996: The Honorable Nancy Kassebaum
U.S. Senate, Kansas and The Honorable John Porter U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois
1995: The Honorable Tom Harkin
U.S. Senate, Iowa
1994: The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
U.S. Senate, Massachusetts
1992: The Honorable Albert Gore, Jr.
U.S. Senate, Tennessee
1991: The Honorable Dale Bumpers
U.S. Senate, Arkansas
1990: The Honorable William H. Natcher
U.S. House of Representatives, Kentucky
1989: The Honorable Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr.
Former U.S. Senator, Connecticut
1988: The Honorable Claude D. Pepper*
U.S. House of Representatives, Florida

* Deceased

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