Awards

OUTSTANDING LIBRARIAN AWARD

  • 2007 Rayburne Turner, Charleston County
  • 2006 Guynell Williams, SC State Library
  • 2005 Libby Law, SC State Library
  • 2004 Dennis Adams, Beaufort County
  • 2003 Marguerite D. Keenan, Pickens County
  • 2002 Mary Bull, South Carolina State Library
  • 1998 Helen Ann Rawlinson, Richland County
  • 1997 Lennart Pearson, Presbyterian College
  • 1996 Katina Strauch, College of Charleston
  • 1995 John Landrum, South Carolina State Library
  • 1994 Norman Belk, Greenville County
  • 1993 Faith Line, Sumter County
  • 1992 Sherman Pyatt, The Citadel
  • 1991 David Warren, Richland County
  • 1990 Louise McAuley, Marion County
  • 1989 Virginia Foley Niles, Georgetown County
  • 1988 Leslie Abrams, Clemson University
  • 1987 Dennis Bruce, Spartanburg County
  • 1986 Marvin Stewart, Charleston County

OUTSTANDING NEW PROFESSIONAL AWARD

  • 2007 Kristen DeVoe, College of Charleston
  • 2006 Terrye Conroy
  • 2005 Stacy Winchester
  • 2004 Derek Wilmott, Thomas Cooper Library, USC
  • 2003 Maria Jones, Beaufort County Library
  • 2001 Laura Holden, Anderson County Library
  • 1998 Cary Jones
  • 1997 Judith Jordan, Greenville County Public Library
  • 1991 Frannie Ashburn, NC Center for the Book
  • 1990 Denise Jacobs, Monarch Elementary, Union
  • 1989 Cynthia Yarborough, Presbyterian College
  • 1987 Angela Bardin, S.C. Supreme Court
  • 1986 Virginia Warr, Hartsville

OUTSTANDING PARAPROFESSIONAL AWARD

  • 2003 Lorraine Catoe, Richland County Library
  • 2001 Roberta White, Spartanburg County Library
  • 1999 Barbara H. Gilliard South Carolina State University
  • 1998 Rayburne Turner, Charleston County Library
  • 1997 Betty Cook, Clemson University Library

INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AWARD

  • 2002 Carl Stone, Director, Anderson County Library
  • 1998 Phil Ritter and the Greenville County Library
  • 1995 Robert New
  • 1993 Patricia Lightweiss
  • 1989 Judith Fitzgerald
  • 1988 Eva Roussos
  • 1986 Betty E. Callaham
  • 1985 Daniel Barron, Melinda Hare

GRASSROOTS AWARD

  • 1993 Wang Ying
  • 1992 David Vassar
  • 1991 Gayle Holmes
  • 1990 Teresa Price Lanford
  • 1989 Stephen Escar Smith
  • 1988 Denise Jacobs
  • 1987 Elizabeth Bonniwell

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2007 Libby Law
  • 2006 H. Paul Dove
  • 2006 Roger K. Hux
  • 2006 Charlotte Marshall
  • 2006 Martha Mason
  • 2006 Yvette H. Pierce

FRIEND OF LIBRARIES AWARD

  • 2006 Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ackerman
  • 2005 Tom Fletcher
  • 2004 Friend of Libraries - Sen Gerald Mallory, Sen. District 27
  • 2003 David R. Dickerson, Fort Jackson
  • 2002 Dr. Randy L. Akers, Executive Director of the South Carolina Humanities Council
  • 1999 Barbara and Lou Roberts, Friends of the McCormick County Library
  • 1998 Harriet Woodham, Richland County
  • 1997 Mozell T. Robinson, Chester County
  • 1996 Virginia M.Delaney and D. Lindsay Pettus
  • 1994 Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach
  • 1993 Friends of Richland County Library
  • 1991 Dr. Thomas C. Stanton, Francis Marion College
  • 1990 M. Penelope Davis, Charleston
  • 1989 Elma Sanders Rogers, Colleton County
  • 1988 King Dixon, Laurens County
  • 1987 Francie Dunlap, Florence
  • 1986 Bright Parker, Gaffney
  • 1985 C.P. “Margie” Porterfield, Lexington County
  • 1984 Judy Pendarvis, Edgefield County
  • 1983 Sarah Miles Norton, Oconee County
  • 1982 Harriet Keyserling, Beaufort County & Thomas Smith, Florence County
  • 1981 B.O. Thomason, Jr., Greenville
  • 1980 Jean E. Crouch, Saluda
  • 1979 Carlisle Bean, Spartanburg
  • 1978 Lillian Hart, Clinton
  • 1977 Arthur Magill, Greenville
  • 1976 Jean Galloway Bissell, Columbia

SOUTH CAROLINA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2003

  • Margie E. Herron

JANE WALTER MASON AWARD

  • 2004 Cassandra Gissendanner

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

  • 2007 Paul Dove, Mary Smalls and Carl Stone
  • 2005 Jim Johnson and Drucie Gullion