Wilma Gibbs Moore

Moore began her career working for the Indianapolis Public Library in 1977. In 1983, she went to work at Indiana University (IU) as the residence halls librarian. Moore left her full-time position at IU in 1986 to begin a 30-year career as an archivist of the African American history collection at the Indiana Historical Society.

Moore is credited with bringing many significant collections that document Indiana’s Black heritage to the Indiana Historical Society. The organization honored her with the Eli Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing her significant contributions and efforts to enrich history in 2017. The Wilma Gibbs Moore Graduate Endowed Scholarship was established in 2018 to provide support to students from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a degree in library and information science. Read more >>