Virginia Lacy Jones
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Virginia Lacy Jones was an American librarian who throughout her 50-year career in the field pushed for the integration of public and academic libraries. She was one of the first African Americans to
Virginia L. Jones in 1982, photographed by Judith Sedwick
Beta Phi Mu Award
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The Beta Phi Mu Award is an annual prize recognizing an individual for distinguished service to education for librarianship. First bestowed in 1954, Award recipients include various prominent leaders
Virginia Lacy Jones
…Joseph W. Lippincott Award, which she was given in 1977.. honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Michigan (1979), *Beta Phi Mu Award (Library Science Honorary Society) Award (1980), Mary Rothrock Award (1980…
Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness, first recipient of the Beta Phi Mu Award in 1954, was dean of the University of Michigan Library Science Department from 1940 to 1964.
The printer's mark of Aldus Manutius, the dolphin and anchor seen here on a 1558 title page, serves as the insignia of Beta Phi Mu.
Ching-chih Chen-Beta Phi Mu Award-2008
Charles C. Williamson- Beta Phi Mu Award- 1964