Amistad
High School
Providing students with access
to Yale libraries. And partnering between Yale librarians and Amistad
on school activities.
Diane Turner
Blood Drive
http://www.library.yale.edu/lisa/blooddrives.html
The Library Staff
Association regularly holds blood drives for the Red Cross in concert
with other University organizations such as Student Life @ the McDougal
Center. The Red Cross relies entirely on volunteer blood donors to meet
the transfusion needs of patients. The need for donated blood is constant,
and the Library Staff Association is proud to assist the Red Cross in
its life-saving efforts.
LiSA
Breach of
Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
http://opa.yale.edu/bulletin/yale_bulletin_section.aspx?id=68&type=CN&pub_id=20
Yaleco-sponsored
a "Civic Engagement Conversation" on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 6-8
p.m., at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St.The event featured
Eric Etheridge, author of "Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961
Mississippi Freedom Riders" and Freedom Riders Reverend Reginald
Green, Ellen Ziskind and Lula White. Cheryl Greenberg, the Paul E. Raether
Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College, will moderate the
discussion.
Diane Turner
Columbus
House Holiday Raffle
http://www.library.yale.edu/lisa/raffle.html
The Yale Library
Staff Association Raffle is held each year at the Library's Holiday Party
to raise money for Columbus House. One hundred percent of the proceeds
are donated in the Yale Library's name. Keeping that goal at the forefront
of our efforts, the Library Staff Association would like to gently remind
library staff that the raffle is held in a sprit of generosity and outreach
to New Haven's homeless population.
LiSA
 Days
of Caring Book Drive
http://www.uwgnh.org/LiveUnited/Volunteer/day_caring/index.php
Yale students, staff
and faculty can help in the effort to build a "City of Readers"
by donating new or gently used books for young people to the Yale-United
Way Days of Caring Book Drive.
Diane Turner
Family and Community Archives Project (FCAP)
http://www.library.yale.edu/librarynews/2008/05/students_and_archivists_to_cel.html
 In
response to the Society of American Archivists call for action in developing
a more diverse archival workforce, twenty-one Yale University Library
archivists conceived the Family and Community Archives Project to introduce
New Haven high school students to the archival profession and the work
of professional archivists. Over nine weeks, 113 juniors and their teachers
in “United States History II” learned how to find and care
for photographs, documents, and artifacts and learned how to do research
using primary sources.
MSSA
Food Drive
http://www.library.yale.edu/lisa/annualfooddrive.html
The Library Staff
Association holds a canned food drive at least once a year. In the past,
the designated recipient has been The Connecticut Food Bank, the largest
centralized source of donated emergency food in the state. Serving 450
agencies in Connecticut, such as soup kitchens and food pantries, the
Food Bank provides food annually for an estimated 250,000 people in need.
LiSA
Government
Documents Collections
http://www.library.yale.edu/govdocs/
On August 27, 2009, Yale University Library hosted several New
Haven-area public and academic librarians for a presentation and discussion
about Yale Library's government documents depository collections. This
outreach event, entitled "Yale University Library's Government Documents
Collections: Open to You!", was intended to raise awareness about
these collections, which by depository program requirements must be made
freely available to the public. Attending were librarians from New Haven
Free Public Library, Southern Connecticut State University, Gateway Community
College, Albertus Magnus College, and Quinnipiac University Law School.
Julie Linden, Yale's Librarian for Political Science, International Affairs,
and Government Information, presented information about the library's
depository collections from the United States federal government, Canadian
federal government, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization,
and European Union. These rich collections cover a wide range of subjects,
including public policy, economics, agriculture, the environment, public
health, science and technology, international relations, and much more.
The event was sponsored by Diane Turner, Associate University Librarian
for Human Resources, Organizational Development and Community Relations.
Camilla Tubbs, U.S. federal documents librarian at the Yale Law Library,
also attended to answer questions about the Law Library's depository collection.
Participants engaged in a lively question-and-answer session.
James Hillhouse
Commemoration (2001)
Exhibit in Sterling
Memorial Library. Collaboration between Manuscripts & Archives and
the New Haven Historical Society.
 New
Haven Media Specialists
Seminars for NHPS
Media Specialists. 2008 was "The Library's Role for the Next Generation
of Successful Students"
Diane Turner
NHPS Mock
Trial
The mock trial is
co-sponsored by the New Haven Public Schools, Yale University, New Haven
County Bar Association and the New Haven County Bar Foundation.
Diane Turner
NHPS Book
Bowl
http://www.nhps.net/johncdaniels/bookbowl.htm#HISTORY
A competition in
which students will demonstrate, not their athletic prowess, but their
understanding of books. Pupils in grades 4 through 12 in the New Haven
Public Schools have collectively read thousands of books this year in
preparation for the annual Book Bowl, which tests students' knowledge
of 10 selected books.
Diane Turner
NHPS Seminar
- Understanding our History, Understanding Ourselves
http://tomficklin.blogspot.com/2009/03/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome.html
On Sunday afternoon
March 22, 2009 Black Student Achievement: YES, WE CAN! presented Cultural
Conversations with Dr. Joy DeGruy (formerly Leary) in a Youth Summit with
Dr. DeGruy entitled “Understanding our History, Understanding Ourselves,”
at Hill Regional Career High School Auditorium. Monday, March 23, 2009
a Community Summit with Dr. DeGruy, teachers, counselors, social workers,
and others who work with youth, entitled “Understanding Black History,
Understanding the Young People We Serve,” took place in the Lecture
Hall at the Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School.
Diane Turner
 NHFPL
Noah Webster Award
http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v36.n21/story9.html
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. 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.
Success By
Six
http://www.uwgnh.org/LiveUnited/OurWork/Education.php
Through its Success
By 6 ® initiative, United Way has invested $1.6 million to support
children and families and has made it possible for more than 1,100 children
to attend quality child care programs.
Diane Turner
Teaching
Arabic language & culture with New Haven High Schools
Staff from the Near
East Collection meet with Arabic Language students at Metropolitan and
Career High Schools in New Haven to discuss the language, culture, history,
and civilization of Arabs and the Islamic world.
Simon Samoeil
United Way
http://www.uwgnh.org/LiveUnited/Partners/Partners.php
Each year, students,
faculty and staff across the University partner with United Way to improve
lives and to reduce the economic and education disparities that challenge
our region. This year that partnership is particularly important. Too
many families are struggling to secure what we consider fundamental –
food, fuel, a safe and stable place to live. They also struggle to obtain
what we know is necessary for real success – job and financial stability,
access to healthcare and learning opportunities from birth through adulthood.
Diane Turner
Xavier University
in New Orleans
Yale has a relationship
with this HBCU school, in that Xavier is a pipeline for Science and Medical
School students coming to study here at Yale. Sister Grace has been a
key contact. Xavier's undergraduates also are recruited to Yale's summer
programs. Local high school students are recommended to Xavier's undergraduate
program in New Orleans as well , so Sister Grace also has a relationship
with NHPS administrators and staff, particularly Career HS.
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute Fellows
Curriculum units
the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Fellows developed, using resources
from the University's libraries, museums, and galleries. Congratulations
to the Fellows and the Yale faculty seminar leaders for their work together,
collected at http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/.
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