LOS ANGELES : Community College Official Wins U.S. Library Award

Julia Li Wu, vice president of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, has won an award from the White House Conference on Library and Information Services.

Wu received the Local Elected Official’s Award for her “persistent and effective leadership in bringing libraries in the district into the electronic age,” said Claude Blakely, chairman of the task force that chose the award winners.

She is one of three elected officials in the nation to receive the award.

“Julia Li Wu is an outstanding example of what one person can do when confronted by a seemingly hopeless situation,” Blakely said.

“She built an alliance among voters, public officials, students, faculty and community leaders, in a way that made almost all feel a part of the undertaking. In the end it was not her project, but it belonged to all of them,” he said.