On the strength of four entries, the Edgartown library won five state awards for excellence last month from the Massachusetts Library Association.

At the association’s annual convention in Springfield, the library won awards in every category it had entered, plus a special statewide honor as well.

The annual contest involves academic, public, school and special libraries across the state. Small communities like Edgartown compete against much larger urban facilities like those of Newton and Cambridge.

At the May 7 awards ceremony, library director Felicia Cheney needed sensible shoes for her many treks to the podium and back. It began with honorable mention awards for the library’s monthly printed newsletter and for its Web site, edgartownlibrary.org. The parade continued with first-place awards for the library’s new logo and, in the category of public programs, for the six-week series titled Edgartown 101.

The logo is built around an image of the windows of the 1904 library, given to the town by Andrew Carnegie. In tribute to Mr. Carnegie, who believed libraries represent a dawning of knowledge, the windows feature a rising sun.

The Edgartown 101 series, presented in January and February, was a program in civic literacy that brought town leaders into the library for conversations about the work they do. At the end of the awards ceremony, there was yet one more prize for the Edgartown Library — the PR for Pennies Award, a statewide honor which recognizes the most successful efforts by libraries to reach out to their communities at minimal expense.