Carol Baker – Lifetime Achievement Award – Maritime Librarian and More
This is a salute to Carol Baker, who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
“No one has done more in this community to collect, organize, catalog, and build not just one, but two extensive maritime library collections, one at the Port Townsend Public Library, established in 1993, and the other at Northwest Maritime’s H. W. McCurdy Library. With these two large collections, residents and visitors have free and public access to resources on all maritime subjects.” – https://woodenboat.org/lifetime-achievement-awards/
I have never met Carol, but I have been an avid enjoyer of the superb collections she has curated in Port Townsend and learned a great deal from them. I always recommend the maritime section to anyone who will listen. Thank you, Carol.
For Carol’s full bio, click on the following link and scroll down to the 2025 Awards History section. https://woodenboat.org/lifetime-achievement-awards/
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Thanks Josh. I’ll check out these resources.
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Hi Josh,
I met her! I saw someone at NWM looking like the picture of her and stopped her to chat. She’s the real deal.
She must have ideas on the future of these collections, books she’d like to acquire, outreach strategies, fun community engagement, and what works in getting books and info to those who want or need them.
I missed her presentation (had to scrub the 1951 Lightning for a last minute opportunity to be in the Festival.) It would be fun to hang out with you both over coffee sometime.
Carol
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