Watson Davis Award
The Watson Davis Award, commemorating the founder of the Society and given to ASIS&T members for outstanding continuous contributions and dedicated service to the Society, was established by ASIS&T in 1975.
Past recipients of the Watson Davis Award:
| 2012 | K.T. Vaughan |
| 2011 | Robert Williams |
| 2010 | Barbara Wildemuth |
| 2009 | Edie Rasmussen |
| 2008 | Samantha Hastings |
| 2007 | Paula Galbraith |
| 2006 | Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Steve Hardin |
| 2005 | Michael Buckland |
| 2004 | Joseph Busch |
| 2003 | Nancy Roderer |
| 2002 | Thomas Hogan |
| 2001 | Julie Hurd |
| 2000 | Candy Schwartz |
| 1999 | Jessica L. Milstead |
| 1998 | Judy Watson |
| 1997 | Karla Petersen |
| 1996 | Marjorie K. Hlava |
| 1995 | Martha Williams and Donald Kraft |
| 1994 | Audrey Grosch |
| 1993 | Debora Shaw |
| 1992 | Marianne Cooper |
| 1991 | Mickie Voges-Piatt |
| 1990 | Julie Virgo |
| 1989 | Madeline Henderson and G. Daniel Robbins |
| 1988 | Bonnie C. Carroll |
| 1987 | George Abbott and Barbara Flood |
| 1986 | N. Bernard Basch |
| 1985 | Lawrence Woods and Michel Menou |
| 1984 | Robert Tannehill, Jr. |
| 1983 | Toni Carbo and Margaret T. Fischer |
| 1982 | Edmond Sawyer |
| 1981 | Jan Krcmar |
| 1980 | Gerard O. Platau |
| 1979 | Frank Slater |
| 1978 | Mary C. Berger, Joe Ann Clifton, Charles H. Davis |
| 1977 | Arthur W. Elias, Irene Farkas-Conn, Simon M. Newman, Roy D. Tally |
| 1976 | James M. Cretsos, Laurence B. Heilprin, Lois F. Lunin, Gerald J. Sophar, Herbert S. White |