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MLA Awards and Honors

Estelle Brodman Award for the
Academic Medical Librarian of the Year

The Estelle Brodman Award recognizes an academic medical librarian at mid-career level who demonstrates significant achievement, the potential for leadership, and continuing excellence. The award was established in 1986 with a gift from Irwin H. Pizer, and presented for the first time in 1988.

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  • 2012: Bart Ragon
  • 2011: Nancy Tannery
  • 2010: Stephanie Fulton
  • 2009: none awarded
  • 2008: none awarded
  • 2007: Jan LaBeause
  • 2006: Linda Walton
  • 2005: Michele Tennant
  • 2004: Kathyrn Nesbit (posthumously)
  • 2003: Susan London
  • 2002: Judith F. Burnham
  • 2001: T. Scott Plutchak
  • 2000: Jeanette C. McCray
  • 1999: E. Diane Johnson
  • 1998: Anne Wood Humphries
  • 1997: M.J. Tooey
  • 1996: Gale G. Hannigan
  • 1995: David W. Boilard
  • 1993: Julia Sollenberger
  • 1992: Carolyn Anne Reid
  • 1991: Richard E. Lucier
  • 1990: Kathryn J. Hoffman
  • 1989: Gail A. Yokote
  • 1988: Audrey Powderly Newcomer


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