LDA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN LIBRARY ACHIEVEMENT
The LDA Award was created in 1978 by Mr. Andrew Ippolito, founder of LDA Publishers, Inc., to call attention to the importance of libraries and library people on Long Island. Annually an individual is selected who, through his or her efforts, has enriched the field of librarianship. Librarians, trustees, support staff, friends of the library, vendors, and publishers are all eligible. The selection committee is appointed by the Nassau County Library Association and Suffolk County Library Association. The award is sponsored by LDA Publishers.
Criteria for granting the LDA Award includes one or more of the following:
- Outstanding achievement in developing and publishing library materials.
- A long and distinguished service in the advancement of librarianship.
- An original contribution for promoting the library.
- Progressive legislative activity.
- Promotion of intellectual freedom.
- Creative, innovative utilization of technology.
You can also see the nomination brochure here.
LDA AWARD WINNERS
| 2025 | Lisa Gangemi Kropp |
| 2024 | Frank McKenna |
| 2023 | Christopher DeCristofaro |
| 2022 | Victor A. Caputo |
| 2021 | Neely McCahey |
| 2020 | Trina Reed |
| 2019 | Matthew Bollerman |
| 2018 | Ellen Firer |
| 2017 | Peter K. Ward |
| 2016 | Debbie Podolski |
| 2015 | Judith Willner |
| 2014 | Renee McGrath |
| 2013 | Sandra Feinberg |
| 2012 | Mary Westermann-Cicio |
| 2011 | Thomas Tarantowicz |
| 2010 | Joseph Eisner |
| 2009 | Jackie Thresher |
| 2008 | Florence Denny |
| 2007 | Donald Wilson |
| 2006 | Kenneth Weil |
| 2005 | Gerald D. Nichols |
| 2004 | Mamie Eng |
| 2003 | Irving Toliver |
| 2002 | Harriet Edwards |
| 2001 | Julie Klauber |
| 2000 | Herb Biblo |
| 1999 | Myron Roochvarg |
| 1998 | Sean A. Fanelli |
| 1997 | Dorothy Puryear |
| 1996 | Albert E. Donor |
| 1995 | Arthur L. Friedman |
| 1994 | Helen Flowers |
| 1993 | Irving Adelman |
| 1992 | John Paul Cirino |
| 1991 | Annette Bassett |
| 1990 | Joseph N. Whitten/ Sara Courant |
| 1989 | Marion Waswo |
| 1988 | Mildred Lowe |
| 1987 | Madeline Hendrix |
| 1986 | Ruth A. Velleman |
| 1985 | Andrew Geddes |
| 1984 | Lucia DePonte |
| 1983 | Irene Turin |
| 1982 | A. Louis Morse |
| 1981 | Caren Donnelly Farkas |
| 1980 | Dinah Lindaur/ Edith Reisner (posthumous) |
| 1979 | Wilfred Morin |
| 1978 | Eileen McArthur |
