Levittown honors Librarian of the year

Innovator, collaborator, researcher and mentor were the words used to describe Kirsten Anderson, the library media specialist at Jonas Salk Middle School who received the Nassau BOCES School Librarian of the Year Award. She was recognized for this achievement at the Levittown Board of Education meeting on Sept. 13.

Anderson was nominated for the award by Tom D’Ambrosio, Veronica McCarthy, Kerin Slattery and Caitlin Stabile. Superintendent Todd Winch and the board of education presented Anderson with a certificate of merit during the meeting.

“She thinks outside the box and brings books alive for our middle school students,” said Slattery, Levittown’s director of English Language Arts. “She is an enthusiastic contributor at the building as well as district level. She is a team player always willing to go the extra mile to make every student feel special and accepted in her library space.”