Best Information Science Book Award Recipients
This annual award is given to the author of an outstanding book relevant to the information sciences, including all communication activities and information science and technology fields defined in the purpose of ASIS&T. Books are judged on their importance to information science and technology, readability, validity, originality, research significance and scholarship.
The recipients of the Best Information Science Book Award are:
Year
Recipient
2023
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, Karen Levy
2022
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Kate Crawford
2021
Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, Christina Dunbar-Hester
2020
Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, Morgan Ames
2019
America’s Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age, Colin Burke
2018
Information and Society, Michael Buckland
2017
Interactions with Search Systems, Ryen White
2016
Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star, Editors: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke and Ellen Balka
2015
Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data (History and Foundations of Information Science) , Ronald E. Day
2014
The Discipline of Organizing, Robert J. Glushko
Going Viral, Karine Nahon and Jeff Hemsley
2013
Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior, Raya Fidel
2012
Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
2011
Atlas of Science, Katy Börner
2010
Piracy, The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, Adrian Johns
2010
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, Marcia J. Bates
2009
The Public Domain, James Boyle
2008
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, Christine Borgman
2006
Memory Practices in the Sciences, Geoffrey C. Bowker
2005
Information Politics on the Web, Richard Rogers
2004
A History of Online Information Services 1963-1976, Charles Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn
2003
Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs and Behavior, Donald Case
2002
Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace, Stuart Biegel
2001
From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure, Christine Borgman
2000
Text Information Retrieval Systems, Charles T. Meadows, Bert R. Boyce and Donald H. Kraft
1998
Information Storage and Retrieval, Robert R. Korfhage
1997
Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems, Bryce Allen
1996
Measuring Information: An Information Service Perspective, Jean Tague-Sutcliffe
1995
Knowledge-Based Systems for General Reference Work: Applications, Problems and Progress, John V. Richardson, Jr.
1994
Introduction to Electronic Document Management Systems, William B. Green
1993
Dilemmas in the Study of Information: Exploring the Boundaries of Information Science, Samuel D. Neill
1992
Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, F. Wilfrid Lancaster
1991
Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, David C. Blair
1990
Democratizing Information: Online Databases and the Rise of End-User Searching, Bryan Pfaffenberger
1989
Information Science: An Integrated View, Anthony Debons, Ester Horne, and Scott Cronenweth
1988
Federal Information Policies in the 1980's: Conflicts and Issues, Peter Hernon and Charles R McClure
1987
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation of Design, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
1986
Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems, Dagobert Soergel
1985
Subject Access Systems: Alternatives in Design, Jessica Milstead
1983
Second-Hand Knowledge: An Inquiry into Cognitive Authority, Patrick Wilson
1982
The Art of Abstracting, Edward T. Cremmins
1981
The Information Profession: Survey of an Emerging Field, Anthony Debons, Donald King, Una Mansfield, and Donald L. Shirey
1979
The Structure and Governance of Library Networks, Allen Kent and Thomas Galvin
1978
Toward Paperless Information Systems, F. Wilfrid Lancaster
1977
Essays of an Information Scientist, Eugene Garfield
1976
Publishers and Libraries: A Study of Scholarly and Research Journals, Bernard M. Fry and Herbert S. White
1975
Dynamic Information and Library Processing, Gerard Salton
1974
Information Retrieval On-line, F. Wilfrid Lancaster and E.G. Fayen
1973
The Metaphorical Brain, Michael A. Arbib
1972
The Making of a Library, Robert S. Taylor
1971
Handbook of Data Processing for Libraries, Joseph Becker and Robert M. Hayes
1970
Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing, and Evaluation, F. Wilfrid Lancaster
1969
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Volume 3), Carlos A. Cuadra