NJCH ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | TEACHER OF THE YEAR | LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION

Library Book Collection

Every year, NJCH awards copies of our entire collection of books nominated for the Humanities Book of the Year Award to public libraries around the state for their circulating collection.

2009 Winning Libraries:

Edison Township Free Public Library

Morris County Library

Mount Laurel Library

Roselle Park Veterans Memorial Library

Tenafly Public Library

Each library received this year's collection which included The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed, the 2009 Humanities book of the year, and 2009 Honor books The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America by John Fea; Benedict Arnold’s Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War by Arthur Lefkowitz; Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency by W. Barksdale Maynard; Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by James M. McPherson; and, Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples by Michael Robertson.

NJCH book committee member Gloria Rojas presents the collection to the Morris County Library.	Pat Tumulty (right), NJCH book committee member, with Kathy Schalk-Greene (left), Acting Director, and Jennifer Gafney (center), former intern at the Mount Laurel Library, with the NJCH book collection.

For more information on how to apply for the library book collection, contact Kathy Flesch at 1-888-FYI-NJCH (394-6524) or by email at kflesch@njch.org.