Amy Brownlee, District Librarian for USD 376, was awarded the 2017 President’s Distinguished Library Media Specialist Award by the Kansas Association of School Librarians (KASL) at the state library conference in Wichita on Friday, Oct. 27. The award is given annually “to recognize an individual who has developed an outstanding library media program for his/her district, and has made an outstanding contribution to school librarianship and school library media development in Kansas.” Brownlee is a K-12 school librarian for Sterling Grade School and Sterling Jr./Sr. High School. She has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship as part of a study trip to Africa with the Ethiopia Reads organization, received the Beta Phi Mu Achievement Award from Emporia State University in 2002 for outstanding work in graduate studies, and has been a member of the William Allen White Children’s Book Award Selection Committee. She has presented numerous times at the KASL Annual Conference, KASL District workshops, for the South Central Kansas Regional Library System, and at the KAMLE (Kansas Association of Middle Level Educators) Symposium. Brownlee has also had several articles published in School Library Monthly. Over her 20 years as an educator in the Sterling school system, she has written numerous grants and secured over $37,000 in funding for the district for technology, books, ebooks, continuing education, and special programs such as book discussions and all-school reading events. Brownlee’s library program, including curriculum, lessons, web site, special events and programs, has served as a model for librarians around the state. In recent years, Brownlee has added a Battle of the Books program for 5th and 6th graders and hands-on S.T.E.M. activities such as circuit building, robotics, and stop-motion animation for elementary students. Linda Glaze, a librarian in Oberlin, KS, nominated Brownlee for the honor after attending her presentations and getting to know her at various conferences. In her nomination, Glaze said, “I admire Amy as a person and as a Library Media Specialist. She has worked very hard to create a model library program."
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