Thursday, August 25, 2022

ALA Needs to Update the John Sessions Memorial Award Page!

Missing from the ALA  Awards Website:


John Sessions Memorial Award

  • 2022-Nash Photo Collection[2] of the Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections.[3] Among the photographs is documentation of Guadalupe (Lupe) Gamboa and Michael Fox who were arrested for attempting to alert farm workers of the right to organize—a case that went to the Washington State Supreme Court. This case secured the right for organizers to visit labor camps.[4]
  • 2021-Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. "For its proactive efforts to reflect a more representative working-class history of the Pacific Northwest through its practices to address representation gaps in occupational communities, racial and ethnic groups, women, LGBTQ+ workers, and other historically marginalized communities. For its collaborative oral history project documenting workers in the Covid-19 pandemic."[5]
  • 2020-Labor Collections of the Archives and Special Collections of the UAA/APU Consortium Library. (University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University).[6]"For their consolidation of access to extensive archival materials relating to the history of labor and labor relations in Alaska and their support of the Alaska labor community in which one out of every 5 workers is a member of a union,the Labor Collections of the Archives and Special Collections of the UAA/APU Consortium Library was unanimously selected.
  • 2018. The Iowa Labor Collection and Iowa Labor History Oral Project, State Historical Society of Iowa.[7]

John Sessions Memorial Award | Awards & Grants

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