Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and formerly director of the

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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.'' winner of the

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from the

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of the American Library Association. She was honored with the

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for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West. Before moving to

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, Robbins was a long-time resident of

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, where she became the first female city council person and then the first female mayor. Robbins was named Wisconsin Librarian of the Year in 2001 by the

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. On the occasion of the

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Centennial in 2007, she was named one of the state's 100 Library Legends (living or dead).Oklahoma's 100 Library Legends
, Retrieved April 3, 2011.

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Oklahoma Library Association Awards

University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies.

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