Volunteer of the Year Award

Yearly we recognize, at the annual conference, an ACL volunteer that has exhibited exceptional dedication and has performed a volunteer service worthy of mention. This award is nominated by our volunteer leaders and selected by the ACL Board of Directors.

Congratulations to the Spiritual Encouragement Team, recipients of the 2021 Volunteer of the Year Award.


Andrea Abernathy	Grace Andrews	Deborah McConkey

An ACL volunteer is recognized annually who has exhibited exceptional dedication and has performed a volunteer service worthy of mention. This award is nominated by our volunteer leaders and selected by the ACL Board of Directors. This last year was exceptional and so was the work of this team! The work of these ladies impacted the lives of ACL members in some way in the last 12 months. This team has gone above and beyond in striving to serve and encourage our membership during such a challenging year. They have sent over 500 hand-written notes (twice!!), started a new prayer ministry initiative, and continue to organize the monthly Reference Point Devotionals. They care deeply for the ACL membership and continue to look for ways to encourage fellow members in their faith-empowered librarianship. Many ACL members are blessed by their spiritual encouragement efforts! It is our pleasure to recognize the team members of the Spiritual Encouragement Team as the 2021 ACL Volunteers of the Year.

Recipients of the Volunteer of the Year Award are:

2021	Andrea Abernathy	2017	Beth Purtee	2010	Ben Brick	2006	Jule Kind
2021	Grace Andrews	2015	Doug Butler	2009	Georgianne Bordner	2005	Stanford Terhune
2021	Deborah McConkey	2014	Denise Nelson	2008	Sharon Bull	2004	Gail Atwood
2020	Linda Rust	2013	Cheri du Mee	2007	Greg Smith	2003	Elizabeth Werner
2019	Craig Kubic	2012	Allison (Jones) Edens	2006	Jane Hopkins	2002	Lynette Sorenson
2018	Jaime Pitt	2011	Beryl Pagan	2006	Anne-Elizabeth Powell