ALTA Award Mrs. Ann Hopewell Smoot was the recipient of the first annual Honor Award for Major Benefactors from the American Library Trustees Association in recognition of her outstanding gift of a public library to the county of King George, Virginia. There was over 200 people in attendance when Mr. Daniel Casey presented the award to Mrs. Smoot. A duplicate plaque was presented to the Smoot Library and accepted on behalf of the Board of Trustees by Mr. Wesley Meyers, Vice Chairman of the Smoot Library Board. This national honor is given to one major benefactor of libraries each year beginning with the one Mrs. Smoot received. The significance of the gift will be measured from the point of the library receiving the gift and not the size alone.
Considerable weight is given to innovation and imagination of the part of the donor.
Click once on Thumbnail pictures to enlarge, use back arrow button to return.