Alex Poole received the Justin Winsor Prize from the ALA's Library History Round Table in 2024 for his paper which has also been awarded the Wynar Research Paper Award 2025 by the Association for Library And Information Science Education as announced in this press release:
Alex Poole, PhD, Receives the ALISE/Bohdan H. Wynar Research Paper Award
Drexel University's http://www.drexel.edu/cci. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-ogsc="">College of Computing & Informatics is proud to announce that Alex Poole, PhD, associate professor of information science, received the https://alise.org/general/custom.asp?page=wynar-paper-competition. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-ogsc="">ALISE/Bohdan H. Wynar Research Paper Award for his paper, "'If I'm fighting for myself, it is so that whoever stands on my shoulders can go further than I': Charlemae Rollins, Augusta Baker, Effie Lee Morris, and the Community Care Information Practices of Black Women Children's Librarians in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States."
The awards jury commended the paper for its innovation and significant contribution to LIS scholarship. It will be published in The Library Quarterly.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393435120_'If_I'm_fighting_for_myself_it_is_so_that_whoever_stands_on_my_shoulders_can_go_further_than_I'_Charlemae_Rollins_Augusta_Baker_Effie_Lee_Morris_and_the_Community_Care_Information_Practices_of_Black_W. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-ogsc="">Read the preprint here
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Distinguished University Professor
School of Information
University of South Florida
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