The Award of Merit is bestowed by the Association for Information Science and Technology. It is an annual prize to an individual for a lifetime of achievement that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. The Award of Merit was first given in 1964 to Hans Peter Luhn.
Name Date Major accomplishmentsHeidi Julien 2025Marcia Lei Zeng2024Professor of Information Science at Kent State UniversityMarcia Zeng to Receive the ASIS&T 2024 Award of Merit ASIS&T. n.d. Andrew Dillon 2023V.M. Daniel Professor of Information in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin.Andrew Dillon to Receive the Association for Information Science and Technology 2023 Award of Merit Association for Information Science and Technology, 2023. Harry Bruce2022Dean, University of Washington Information SchoolSteve Sawyer 2021Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Diane H. Sonnenwald2020Theory Development in the Information Sciences. Sonnenwald, Diane H. (2016). Theory Development in the Information Sciences. 2016 First ed. Austin: University of Texas Press.Christine Borgman2019Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World Borgman, Christine.(2015). Big Data Little Data No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press.Toni Carbo2018Executive Director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)Thomas D. Wilson2017"Fifty Years of Information Behaviour Research."Wilson, T. D. (2010). "Fifty Years of Information Behaviour Research." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 36 (3): 27–34.Peter Ingwersen2016The Turn - Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context.Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin. (2005). The Turn - Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. The Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval 18, Kluwer 2005Michael E.D. Koenig2015Knowledge Management (Km) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice. McInerney Claire R and Michael E. D Koenig. 2011. Knowledge Management (Km) Processes in Organizations : Theoretical Foundations and Practice. Cham Switzerland: Springer.Marjorie M.K. Hlava2014President, Access Innovations.Access Innovations. https://www.accessinn.com/leadership/ Carol C. Kuhlthau2013Guided Inquiry : Learning in the 21st Century. Kuhlthau, Carolyn C. (2015) Guided Inquiry : Learning in the 21st Century. 2015 Second ed. Santa Barbara CA: Libraries Unlimited.Michael Buckland2012Information and Society.Buckland, Michael. (2017),Information and Society. 2017. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press.Gary Marchionini2011Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities.Marchionini, G. (2010). Information concepts: From books to cyberspace identities. Morgan and Claypool