Barbara Genco

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This Book is Overdue Receives Even More Praise!

December 21, 2009

The reviews are continuing to come in about Marilyn Johnson’s forthcoming book, This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (on sale February 2010). In addition to the amazing review we received from Booklist, check out these wonderful quotes:

“Johnson does for the library profession what Malcolm Gladwell did for the theory of memetics in The Tipping Point.”
-Nora Rawlinson, Co-Founder and Editor, EarlyWord.com

“I have worked as a librarian for 35 years. In these pages I met the past, present and future of my profession. Johnson knows what we know. It is great to be a librarian!”
-Barbara Genco, Librarian and Collection Development Consultant

For those of you attending ALA-Midwinter in Boston next month, please do not miss your opportunity to meet Marilyn where she will be signing complimentary copies of her book, This Book is Overdue during the conference:

Monday, January 18, 2010
HarperCollins booth (#1403)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Boston Convention Center
415 Summer Street
Boston, Massachusetts

ALTAFF Author Tea
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Boston
Grand Ballroom
1 Avenue de Lafayette
Boston, Massachusetts

For tickets or additional information about the ALTAFF Author Tea, visit: www.ala.org/altaff
or call 1-800-545-2433 x2161

In addition to hearing Marilyn speak about This Book is Overdue, check out the other authors that will be featured at the ALTAFF Tea:

Holly LeCraw, The Swimming Pool (Doubleday)
Janice Y.K. Lee, The Piano Teacher (Viking)
Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Teri Woods, Dutch II: Angel’s Revenge (Grand Central Publishing)

We are very excited about This Book is Overdue and we hope you are as well. Also, as Kayleigh mentioned earlier, if you haven’t read the first chapter, check it out here!

Enjoy,

-Bobby

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BEA

June 5, 2009

Book Expo America was held this past weekend in New York. For those of you unfamiliar with BEA, it’s basically a book blitz – an unveiling of titles due out this Fall from publishers. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet authors and ‘catch the buzz’ about forthcoming titles. Librarians make it their business to get to BEA and we’re all the better for it. They speak on panels, share their wealth of knowledge and offer great opportunities for authors to speak at library events. They also have an uncanny knack for finding books that might otherwise fly a little under the radar. They get behind those books with an inspiring force of energy and enthusiasm and spread the word to colleagues and patrons. I’ve said it before: A librarian is a book’s best friend.

One of the many programs dedicated to librarians at BEA was the “Shout and Share” hosted by the AAP. This was a panel moderated by Barbara Genco, Coordinator, Special Projects and Strategic Planning at Brooklyn Public Library. It featured seven prominent librarians who gave their ‘picks’ for hot books coming out this Fall. The entire list has been posted on www.earlyword.com – a fabulous website for collection development librarians.) Just go to Early Word and scroll down–on the right-hand tab is a list that says "BEA '09–Picks of the Lists."

And here’s an article Library Journal ran about the event. Happy reading!

-Virginia