AASL President's Crystal Apple
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) |
| 2024 | Courtney Pentland | All School Librarians |
| 2023 | Kathy Lester | Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ-03) |
| 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 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 |
