Last day of #ala11. This has been a most eventful ALA for me. I was asked by the NYPL to be on an armchair travel panel at NYLA in November. My old friend Ellen Myrick has asked me to become an Audie judge….how exciting! And I am going to become a member of ALSC and blog, which is also very exciting. Years ago I owned a Children’s bookstore called The Golden Key after the George MacDonald story. I will love being part of this group. I had so much great feedback this year. Two librarians offered to help me with the Falcon/hiking program. Many stopped to talk about the travel titles and asked for catalogs. The food books were very popular. Thank you to all!
Tag: ALA Annual 2011
Sunday Synchronicity
Yesterday at #ala11, I met with the NYPL and we discussed depth of collections. The same sentiment, that libraries need a range of books to offer, was echoed the previous night at the ALSC coctail party. For a publisher like Globe Pequot with our long tail, this is important knowledge when we sell to library wholesale accounts. Cat Urbigkit, author, just stopped by. She will post to this blog with pictures in a couple of days. We had an “it’s a small world” moment when she told me that Globe Pequot is publishing her friend’s book on eagles. Amazing!
Librarians at the Gate
The evening was off to a sprinting start. I was very surprised to give out so many samples of a book we publish on New York this evening and to so many librarians not from New York. I was skeptical about bringing so much of this sample. Happy to be wrong. Our “Lexicon of American Food” was popular. Any culinary librarians out there? The most exciting contact for me was a reference libraian from Connecticut who said she was very interested in me developing an outdoor/hiking program for patrons using our Falcon Guides. This is my dream goal this year is to some contribute a hiking program to many libraries. Great start to #ala11.
Things to Come…
Strolling through the Convention Center to get my Conference badge, I passed some exhibitors setting up something very special. Can you guess what this is going to be? Hint: What sixth book in a series is going to be very, very big with kids this November?