Nancy Pearl is Seattle’s superstar librarian. She invented the one-book-one-community concept, she promotes reading through her Book Lust titles, blog, podcast, and TV show, and she even has an librarian action figure modeled after her!
When the AJL convention was in its initial planning stages, Nancy Pearl was asked to be the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, family obligations prevented her from being able to attend, and we were lucky to be able to schedule Dr. Joseph Janes instead. We thought it would still be nice if you all could hear from Nancy, so we asked her for a Convention Countdown interview, and recorded a short conversation with her during Book Expo America in New York in May, 2010. Click the link below to hear the audio clip!
Click here to listen to an interview with Nancy Pearl!
This is the final entry in the Convention Countdown series on People of the Books. Thanks to everyone for reading and for forwarding the link, and mazel tov to all those who won $10 Amazon gift cards in our “Mention Convention” weekly drawings. You have ONE MORE CHANCE to win by sharing this post with friends and colleagues.
See you in Seattle at AJL!
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I’m really just testing to see if the commenting is working, but also want to say how much fun it was to talk to Nancy Pearl!