Food Literacy Kits :: Lets Cook :: ALA Loleta D Fyan Award

Lets Cook 

Food Literacy Kits

Sarah Strahl wins the 2018 Loleta D. Fyan Award

ALA News: 7.12.2018

The American Library Association has awarded the 2018 Loleta D. Fyan Award to Sarah Strahl for her proposal for a Food Literacy – A Critical Need at Hillsboro Public Library.

The grant, up to $5,000, is to be used for the development and improvement of public libraries and the services they provide.

The Loleta D. Fyan Award Jury noted that Strahl’s proposal will benefit many community members with advice about healthy eating on a limited budget. By developing classes on basic cooking skills and how to eat well on a small budget and then archiving on the web videos of these classes, Hillsboro (Oregon) Public Library will provide a very valuable resource for their community. Once archived, these classes will also be available to anyone who connects to the web, and they will provide a model for other libraries that want to create similar content.

Food Literacy Kits for the Library of Things

Washington County Cooperative Library Services

Nutrition goes hand in hand with literacy and learning by giving the brain resources to develop and maintain critical neural pathways. New to the Library of Things, Hillsboro Public Library presents culinary literacy kits to address the food literacy needs of our community and help improve the lives and health of our residents.

Let's Cook!

Pizza

Fruit

Eggs

Smoothies

Noodles

Dumplings

Loleta Fyan, 1951-52 ALA President, bequeathed funds to ALA with the intent that "these funds be used for the development and improvement of public libraries and the services they provide." Fyan, who was the State Librarian of Michigan for 20 years, believed that every individual, regardless of residence, is equally entitled to high quality library service and that librarians must be adept in using the political process to acquire this "right of citizenship". A pioneer in extending library service to rural areas and small communities and a proponent of library cooperation, Fyan was a driving force behind Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) funding.

Previous Fyan winners