Louise S. Robbins
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Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and formerly director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
School of Library and Information Studies.
Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians and intellectual freedom in the United States. Her best known work is The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), winner of the Eliza Atkins Gleason Award and the Willa Literary Award
for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West.
A long-time resident of Ada, Oklahoma
before moving to Madison, she became the first woman city council person and then the first woman mayor.
Robbins was named Wisconsin Librarian of the Year in 2001.
On the occasion of the Oklahoma Library Association Centennial in 2007, she was named one of the state's 100 Library Legends (living or dead).
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
School of Library and Information Studies.
Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians and intellectual freedom in the United States. Her best known work is The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), winner of the Eliza Atkins Gleason Award and the Willa Literary Award
Willa Literary Award
WILLA Literary Award honors outstanding literature featuring women's stories, set in the Western United States, published each year. Women Writing the West , a non-profit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women's West, underwrites and presents the nationally...
for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West.
A long-time resident of Ada, Oklahoma
Ada, Oklahoma
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,008 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, the city population was estimated at 17,019....
before moving to Madison, she became the first woman city council person and then the first woman mayor.
Robbins was named Wisconsin Librarian of the Year in 2001.
On the occasion of the Oklahoma Library Association Centennial in 2007, she was named one of the state's 100 Library Legends (living or dead).