The purpose of the Jane Geske Award is to recognize a Nebraska association, organization, business, library, school, academic institution, or other group that has made an exceptional, long-term contribution to one or more of these fields in Nebraska:
Literacy
Reading
Book Selling
Books
Libraries
Writing in Nebraska

The Award is given in honor of Jane Geske, a founding member of the Nebraska Center for the Book and a long-time active member in many Nebraska library and literary activities.

The Award is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Center for the Book. The award was first announced on Friday, February 28, 1992, at the Lincoln University Club. It was established in recognition of Jane Geske's contributions to the well being of the libraries of Nebraska.

Click on the award winner's name for more information about them.

Recipients:
2007 Plum Creek Literacy Festival
2006 University of Nebraska at Kearney, Department of English
2005 The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Education Foundation
2004 Nebraska Writing Project
2003 Grand Island Public Library and the Grand Island Public Library Foundation, Inc.
2002 Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Chadron, Nebraska
2001 Friends of the Omaha Public Library
2000 Myer and Dorothy Kripke Jewish Federation Library, Omaha, Nebraska
1999 John G. Neihardt Foundation and Neihardt Center, Bancroft, Nebraska
1998 Friends of the Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1997 Hilda Raz, Editor, and the Prairie Schooner
1996 The Nebraska Press
1995 University of Nebraska Press
1994 Harry Duncan and the Cummington Press
1993 Nebraska Humanities Council