The HCL Anderson Award is conferred annually if suitable nominees are found. As the list below shows, there has been no shortage of excellent nominations for ALIA's premier award.
2017 Dr David J Jones MA(Oxon) Dip Lib PhD(UNSW) FALIA and Dr Kerry Smith AM BAppSc(LS), MA, PHD(Murdoch), FALIA
2015 Dr John Alexander (Alex) Byrne BE(Elec) GDip Lib GDipAdvLib MA PhD, FALIA
2012 Dr Warwick Cathro BSc (Hons), PhD, Dip Lib
2010 Jan Fullerton AO, BA (UQ), Grad DipLib (UNSW), FAHA, ALAA
2002 Ian McCallum BA(Hons) Dip Lib FALIA ALIA CP
1999 Professor John Levett FALIA
1998 Dr Alan Bundy BA DipEd MLitt Mlib PhD AFAIM FALIA
1997 Mr Eric John Wainwright BA MA GDipAdmin FALIA
1991 Mr Derek Fielding, MA ALA FLAA
1989 Mr Leonard Jolley, MA FLA FLAA
1989 Mrs Margaret Trask, AM BA MLib FLAA
1988 Mr Warren Michael Horton, BA FALIA
1987 Professor Jean Primrose Whyte, BA AM FLAA
1987 Mr James Gerard Dwyer, BA FACE FLAA
1986 Mr W Laurie Brown, ALA FLAA
1985 Miss Jean A Conochie, MBE BSc FLAA
1984 Mr Harrison Bryan, AO MA Hon LLD FASSA FLAA
1983 Sir Harold L White, Kt, CBE MA FAHA FLAA
1982 Mr Ira Doley Raymond, MA MS ALAA
1981 Miss Phyllis Mander-Jones, MBE BA FLAA
1980 Mr Francis Aubie Sharr, OBE BA ARPS FLA FLAA
1979 Mr Allan Roy Horton, BA FLAA
1978 Mr Dietrich Hans Borchardt, AM MA ALA DipNSLS FLAA
1977 Miss F M Thurles Thomas, BA LLB FLAA
1976 Miss Wilma Radford, BA MEd BSc FLAA
1973 Mr John Wallace Metcalfe, BAFLA FLAA