SAANYS Leadership and Support Award
James C. Belair, coordinator of school library services for the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 SAANYS Leadership and Support Award. This award recognizes the outstanding leadership efforts of those members whose responsibilities require leadership through support services to fellow administrators across and between school buildings and/or districts.
Belair has served Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES since 2010. He previously served as the library media specialist for Monroe One BOCES and for Rush-Henrietta High School. His many leadership roles, he says, “include over a decade of working with library and media vendors as a contract and pricing negotiator for more than 35 library systems.” He adds that he takes “pride in leading the effort to continuously improve library and media services to the component districts within the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES region.”…