ESSAE M. CULVER AWARD

2024 No Award

2023 Melissa Hymel

2022   Delia "Dede" Sanders

2017  Jean Kiesel

2016  Dr. Beth Paskoff

2015  Beth Vandersteen

2014  Angelle Deshautelles

2013  Sona Dombourian

2012  Randy DeSoto

2011  Lilly F. Smith

2010  Lyle Johnson, Director, Acadia Parish Library

2009  No Award

2008  Jackie Choate, Director, Vermillion Parish Library

2007  No award

2006  Amanda Taylor, Director, Concordia Parish

2005  Florence M. Jumonville, Chair, Louisiana and Special Collections Dept, Earl K. Long Library, UNO

2004  Garland Strother, Director, St. Charles Parish Library

2003  Carla S. Hostetter (retired), Iberia Parish Library

2002  Phyllis Heroy, Supervisor of Library Services, East Baton Rouge Parish School Board

2001  Myrtle Smith Bolner, Librarian Emeritus, Louisiana State University Libraries

2000  Joy Lowe, Associate Professor of Library Science, Louisiana Tech University

1999  Sonya Branch, Director (retired), Lafayette Public Library

1998  Lynda Carlberg (posthumously), Director, Calcasieu Parish Library

1997  Elizabeth Bingham, Head, Adult and Circulation Services, East Baton Rouge Parish Library

1996  Helen Sorrell, Librarian, Alexandria Historical Library

1995  F. Landon Greaves, Former Dean, Linus A. Sims Memorial Library

1994  No award

1993  Sue Anderson Hill, Library Automation Consultant, Ascension Parish School System

1992  Julia King Avant, Director, Lincoln Parish Library System

1991  Ben Brady, Director, Ouachita Parish Library

1990  Thomas F. Jaques, State Librarian, Louisiana State Library

1989  Coleen Cole Salley, Professor, College of Education, University of New Orleans

1988  No award

1987  Jane Ellen Carstens, Professor of Library Science, University of Southwestern Louisiana

1986  No award

1985  Betty Lou Roundtree, Coordinator of Technical Services, Louisiana State Library

1984  Marcia Perkins (posthumously), Public Library Consultant, Louisiana State Library

1983  Bronislaw and Mary Ellen Janowski, retired from Evangeline and Allen parish libraries

1982  Agnes A. Harris, Director, Ouachita Parish Library

1981  John Richard, Director, East Baton Rouge Parish Library

1980  Ruth Reedy, Director, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University

1979  Vivian Cazayoux, Associate State Librarian, Louisiana State Library

1978  No award

1977  Hester B. Slocum, Assistant City Librarian, New Orleans Public Library

1976  Margaret Lane, Recorder of State Documents (retired), State Library of Louisiana

1975  Shirley Knowles Stephenson, LSU Library School (retired), Louisiana State University

1974  No Award

1973  Frances Flanders, Director, Ouachita Parish Public Library

1972  William D. Postell, Director, Rudolph Matas Medical Library, Tulane University

1971  Sallie Farrell, State Librarian, Louisiana State Library

1970  Olive Gehring, Library Consultant, St. Martin Parish Schools

1969  Debora Abramson, Assistant State Librarian, Louisiana State Library

1968  Lois Shortess, Head, Extension Department, Louisiana State Library

1967  Sue Hefley, Director, Instructional Materials Services, Webster Parish

1966  Florrinell F. Morton, Director, LSU Library School

1965  No Award