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2019 Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame Nominations Requested
The Wisconsin Library Heritage Center Steering Committee is accepting nominations for individuals to be inducted into the Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame for 2019. Nominations must be submitted by Friday, August 30, 2019. Procedures and nomination form can be found HERE.
The Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame is a project of the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center which is a program of the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation. Induction into the Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame is granted to individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the statewide improvement of library service in Wisconsin. Inductees into the Hall of Fame are selected by the Steering Committee of the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center. The Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame includes both librarians and library supporters. Nominations of individuals to be included in the Hall of Fame come from the Steering Committee and the library community at large. The first ten individuals were inducted into the Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame in 2008. The inductions take place at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Library Association.
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2019 Inductees
2018 Inductees
Lucy E. Smith Morris (1850-1935)
2017 Inductees
Sandra (Sandy) Friedman Dolnick (1936-2016)
2016 Inductees
2015 Inductees
Dorothea M. Krause (1909-2003)
Marjorie Sornson Malmberg (1914-2004)
Minnie M. Oakley (1861-1915)
Wayne A. Wiegand (1946- )
William J. Wilson (1948- )
2014 Inductees
Gilbert Harry Doane (1897-1980)
Wilbur Lyle Eberhart (1922-2010)
Peter G. Hamon (1945- )
Nolan I. Neds (1921-2006)
Gertrude Thurow (1906-1993)
2013 Inductees
Katharine MacDonald Jones (1866-?)
Miriam Downing Tompkins (1892-1954)
2012 Inductees
John Miller Chancellor (1896-1980)
Clarence Brown Lester (1877-1951)
Cornelia Marvin Pierce (1873-1957)
Rachel Katherine Schenk (1899-1973)
2011 inductees
Orrilla Thompson Blackshear (1904-1994)
Daniel Steele Durrie (1819-1892)
Walter Mcmynn Smith (1869 – 1938)
2010 inductees
Julia Wright Merrill (1881-1961)
2009 Inductees
Matthew Simpson Dudgeon (1871-1949)
Henry Eduard Legler (1861-1917)
Klas August Linderfelt (1847-1900)
Charles R. McCarthy (1873-1921)
Margaret Ellen Monroe (1914-2004)
2008 Inductees
Lyman Copeland Draper (1815-1891)
Theresa West Elmendorf (1855-1932)
Muriel Laura Fuller (1912-1978)
Mary Emogene Hazeltine (1868-1949)
Frank Avery Hutchins (1851-1914)
Lutie Eugenia Stearns (1866-1943)
Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853-1913)