Marilyn Johnson Discusses the Importance of Librarians and Libraries
Marilyn Johnson, author of This Book is Overdue!, shares her thoughts on why librarians and libraries are such an important part of the community.
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Little Princes
In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Hopefully you got the chance to meet Conor Grennan at ALA Midwinter, where he signed copies of Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, and discussed the series of events that lead him to found Next Generation Nepal. For that story, in his own words, check out his column on the Huffington Post.
Reuters also ran a fantastic piece on Conor's work, with the best headline I've seen in a while: U.S. author's pickup line becomes crusade in Nepal. Still curious? Got a question for Conor? Log on to CNN and ask away. And no, unfortunately, he's not still single…
-Kayleigh
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This Ink is Overdue?
It seems like every day we get another email about library cuts or closings across the country. So when this landed in my inbox, it brought a welcome smile to my face. Marilyn Johnson's This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All has been one of our departmental favorites for quite some time now (our blog is called Library Love Fest). But Jenn O'Donnell, library worker and devotee of This Book is Overdue!, has trumped us all. Jenn writes:
"I completed my MLIS in 2007 and have finally obtained my first "professional" library position, after working at the circulation desk at a public library and in a support role at a law firm library. I could think of no better way to celebrate than having picture of the super librarian from the cover of This Book is Overdue!."
Jenn, you are truly a badass. Check it out!
Now, more than ever, America needs its libraries, and its librarians. For more information on the current library cuts, here's Marilyn's Op-Ed in the L.A. Times. And for more on This Book is Overdue!, check out the Facebook page, or browse inside the book.
-Kayleigh
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This Book is Overdue!
The buzz continues to grow for This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson. Due out in February, this book explores the role of librarians today and focuses on the increasing demands to keep up with the onslaught of new technology. This book is an homage to librarians everywhere – and it is long overdue! Check out this interesting Q&A the author did with The Desk Set, a site written by ‘a group of New York City area librarians, archivists, bibliophiles and other bookish types,’ and be sure to read the first chapter here.
-Virginia
31 Bond Street, AAP, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Book Buzz, Brava, Valentine, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Ellen Horan, Husband and Wife, Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea, Jacqueline Winspear, Leah Stewart, Louise Erdrich, Maisie Dobbs, Making Toast, Marilyn Johnson, Noah Boyd, Oscar Hijuelos, Roger Rosenblatt, Shadow Tag, The Bricklayer, The Mapping of Love and Death, The Myth of You and Me, This Book is Overdue!, Wench
AAP Spring 2010 Book Buzz
It was great seeing old friends and making new ones at last week’s AAP Book Buzz here in NYC. The AAP Library Committee is comprised of library marketers from various publishing houses. We get together several times a year to brainstorm about different ways we can connect our authors and books to libraries. We decided to invite librarians from the tri-state area and barrage them with book talks and sandwiches! It worked – we all had a lot of fun and it was a great opportunity to talk about some upcoming books that have us jazzed (there’s just never enough time to talk about them all!)
Marilyn Johnson, author of the upcoming This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All kicked off the event with a brief talk about the increasing demands on librarians to keep up with the onslaught of new technology. This book is an homage to librarians everywhere – and it is long overdue!
If anyone is interested in a galley of This Book Is Overdue, I have a few to spare. Send an email to me at librarylovefest at harpercollins dot com and I’ll be happy to send one to you.
Here is a list of the books I had presented. Clicking on each title will bring you to its page in our online catalog. Note: a few of these titles won't hit our catalogs until the beginning of November, so we've put them at the end of the list. Happy reading!
-Virginia
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd
31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
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