2024 - Joan Donovan - article and photos
2023 - Eddie Doyle - article and videos
2022 - Jason Broughton - article and videos
2021 - Crosby Kemper - article and videos
2019 - Pamela Nash Davenport - article, photos and videos
2018 - Lee Rainie - articles, photos and video
2017 - Dr. Michael Eisenberg - article, photos and video
2016 - Pat Feehan - article, photos and video
2015 - Emily Gore - photos and video
2014 - Pamela Wright - article, videos, photos
2013 - Alice Ozma - YouTube
2012 - Michele V. Cloonan - YouTube
2011 - Michael Buckland
2010 - Michael Stephens - YouTube
2009 - Hawk Hurst - storyteller
2008 - Brian Lamb - C-SPAN founder
2007 - Ken Haycock - professor and director of the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose University
2006 - Carol C. Kuhlthau - director, Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries and director of Library and Information Science graduate program at Rutgers University
2005 - Gary Chapman
2004 - Stephen Almagno
2003 - Charles Bierbauer - dean, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, Univ. of South Carolina
2002 - William F. Hogue
2001 - Stephen Almagno
2000 - Susan DiMattia
1999 - F. William Summers
1998 - Edward G. Holley
1997 - Carol C. Kuhlthau
1996 - Frances Ashburn
1995 - Barbara B. Moran
1994 - Robert Molyneux
1993 - Marilyn Miller - (YouTube)
1991 - David Penniman
1990 - Betty E. Callaham - audio file
1989 - Martha Jane K. Zachert
1988 - Margaret Ehrhart - audio file
1986 - Catherine Lewis - audio files: Part 1 and Part 2