Berks County Public Libraries honored leadership and service excellence at a recent awards ceremony recognizing individuals and organizations for their support of and contributions to area libraries. Winners were chosen by the Berks County Public Libraries Advisory Board.<\/p>\n
The ceremony\u2019s top honor, the Dreisbach Award for Exemplary Service went to the volunteers who organize and stage the Berks Book Bonanza.<\/p>\n
Other awards:<\/p>\n
Outstanding Elected Official, Leesport Mayor David Reimer Sr.; Outstanding Local Business, Castaneda\u2019s Mexican Restaurant, Robesonia; Outstanding Community Organization, Hamburg Grange; Outstanding Library Director, Carol Donahue, Village Library of Morgantown; Outstanding Library Volunteer, Marsha Olivia, Kutztown Community Library; Outstanding Library Staff Member, Kellee Wood, Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library;<\/p>\n
Outstanding Fundraising Effort, 75th anniversary, Kutztown Community Library; Outstanding Youth Program, Children\u2019s 12 Days of Crafting, Reading Public Library; Outstanding Teen Program, Youth-Led Humanities Grant (Teen Reading Lounge), Brandywine Community Library; Outstanding Adult Program, Bestsellers & Baked Goods, Bethel-Tulpehocken; Chet Hagan Memorial Public Relations Award, Boyertown Community Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County Public Libraries honored leadership and service excellence at a recent awards ceremony recognizing individuals and organizations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-133525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}