Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 7, 2008|Volume 36, Number 21|Two-Week Issue

Library staff wins Noah Webster Award
for community-building projects

University librarian Alice Prochaska and her staff were recently honored by the New Haven Free Public Library with the Noah Webster Award for helping to build community through education and literacy projects.

The award was presented at the public library’s Mardi Gras celebration at the New Haven Lawn Club on Feb. 5.

The Noah Webster Award is given annually to an organization or to a community project that provides the tools to enhance, broaden and deepen the community’s knowledge and information, thus helping to promote and support a literate and engaged population.

In accepting the award on behalf of the Yale library’s 600 employees, Prochaska highlighted the ways in which the Yale Library and the New Haven Free Public Library are working together in the community, including partnering to create the Consumer Health Information Network, a project offering free medical information to New Haven residents. She also described the many collaborative projects between the library and local schools, including exhibitions, creative writing programs and planning for Noah Webster’s 250th birthday in 2008. The famed lexicographer, editor and author grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale in 1778.

Michael J. Morand, vice president of New Haven and state affairs at Yale and president of the New Haven Public Library’s Patrons Board, presided at the event alongside James C. Welbourne, New Haven’s city librarian.

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