Congrats to Tony. Its great joy to see another G-Ler excel.

Malanding

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>G-L community,
> 
>I am very pleased to share this information.  
> 
>My former "Half Die" neighbour and good brother Tony Loum (Webster) has  been 
>named the "New York Times Librarian of the Year for Brooklyn Public  
>Librarian. 
> 
>22 Public Librarians from across the country received this
>award out of  over 1300 nominations.He is one of 3 New York City Librarians 
>with this  honor this year. The other 2 are from New York Public and Queens 
>Borough Public  Libraries. 
> 
>Congratulations Tony, keep up the good work. Please see below.
>
>GAMBIAN NAMED NEW YORK TIMES LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR.
>
>Update from the Interim Executive Director- November 1,  2006
>
>2007 New York Times Librarian Awards 
>
>Great news! The winners  of the 2007 New York Times
>Librarian Awards have been announced, and we have  a
>recipient at BPL! Anthony Loum, coordinator of Adult
>Services, is one of  this years 21 honorees and the
>seventh BPL staff to win the prestigious  award,
>joining colleagues Paul Smaldone (2005), Alla
>Makeeva-Roylance  (2004), Boniface Wewe (2003), Leonard
>Newman (2002), Elisa Glenn (2001) and  Eleanor Bukowsky
>(2001).
>
>Anthony began his BPL career as an assistant  branch
>librarian at Cypress Hills. Prior to his current
>position, Anthony  was the manager of Adult Library
>Services for Cluster 1. In addition to  having a solid
>background in public libraries, he has extensive
>training  in academic librarianship and a masters
>degree in Education, along with his  masters in Library
>and Information Science.
>
>Anthony is currently the  vice president/president-elect of the New York Black
>Librarians Caucus; a  member of PLAs Membership
>Committee; a member of the International  Relations
>Committee of the Black Caucus of the American  Library
>Association; and a past member of ALAs Committee on
>Diversity. He  is also a reviewer of refereed journal
>articles for Public Libraries  magazine.
>
>Congratulations Anthony!
>
>Dionne  Mack-Harvin
>
>Interim Executive Director
> 
>
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