The Crystal Apple is given at the discretion of the AASL President to an individual or group who has had significant impact on school libraries and students.
Past Honorees
Year | AASL President | Honoree(s) |
2019 | Kathryn Roots Lewis | Marina "Marney" Welmers OverDrive Education |
2018 | Steven Yates | Denine Toor |
2017 | Audrey Church | Emily Sheketoff |
2016 | Leslie Preddy | James Patterson |
2015 | Terri Grief | Bob Sibert, Bound to Stay Bound Books |
2014 | Gail Dickinson | Marlene Woo-Lun |
2013 | Susan Ballard | Dollar General |
2012 | Carl Harvey | Senator Jack Reed (R.I.) |
2011 | Nancy Everhart | Dolly Parton and the Imagination Library |
2010 | Cassandra Barnett | Ohio Governor Ted Strickland |
2009 | Ann M. Martin | Target |
2008 | Sara Kelly Johns | The Spokane Moms: Denette Hill, Lisa Layera-Brunkan, Susan McBurney |
2007 | Cyndi Phillip | Scholastic Library Publishing |
2006 | J. Linda Williams | First Lady Laura Bush Gary Hartzell |
2005 | Dawn P. Vaughn | Follett Library Resources |
2004 | Frances R. Roscello | Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. |
2003 | Nancy P. Zimmerman | Rachel Hodges, former First Lady of South Carolina, and Scholastic, Inc. |
2002 | Helen Adams | Senator Ralph Regula |
2001 | Harriet Selverstone | 3M Library Systems |
2000 | Ellen Jay | Betty Marcoux |
1999 | Sharon Coatney | Delaine Eastin, State Superintendent of Schools, CA |
1998 | Ken Haycock | Lillian Gerhardt, Retiring Editor, School Library Journal |
1997 | Barbara Stripling | DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund |
1996 | David Loertscher | Elliot & Eleanor Goldstein, SIRS Ann Carlson Weeks |
1995 | Jacqueline Mancall | Dr. Judith M. Pitts (posthumously) |
1994 | E. Blanche Woolls | Senator Paul Simon, IL Congressman Jack Reed, RI |
1993 | Ruth Toor | Charles Follett, Jr., Follett Software Company |