And How Was Last Night’s Festivities Then?
Infinitely bloggable. So bloggable, in fact, that I’m going to wait to tell you about it on Monday because A) I am exhausted and I have to work today (wah!) and B) I can hit one of the highlights easily enough without giving too much away.
Imagine this: It’s Soho and there is an enormous line around the block around the block around the block full of trendy people dying to get into the hottest Harry Potter bookstore line in town. If any newspaper was aching for a new take on the Harry Potter genre, this was the place they should have been. In lieu of such a newspaper, I’ll report on Monday.
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*yawn* Me so sleepy.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Kirkus, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on BlueSky at: @fuse8.bsky.social
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I can’t wait until Monday. Glad you had a good time.
Have you read the book yet? Will we get your review??
Elizabeth:
I hope you will check out my article about why I bought HP7 at my local indie bookstore for an interesting take on last night’s events. It’s posted on my blog at http://www.shakabaz.blogspot.com. This was a special event! I look forward to your repot on Monday.
Don’t forget to report on your library’s activities, too.
I arrived at my library branch to discover that I would have the honor of unpacking and counting the HP books. They came complete with really neat lables from Tech Services claiming that the books came from Hogwarts to be delivered to the ____ library.
Over 400 were ordered for our 11 branch system and every one of them was caught by a hold. Every person with a hold could come get their book(s) or recording(s) at 10 am on Saturday. More people put holds on the title during the day. (expecting to just walk in and get one off the shelves. HA!)
Several times the other librarian and I had to go help the circ people handle the checkout lines.
Fun, fun.
I put lightning bolts on kid’s foreheads and they could cut out Slytheran snakes to take home. or the word find. or other stuff.
I have a fold-out Hogwarts that drew lots of attention.
Our Owls were perched on top of the Harry Potter bag I got from Scholastic at ALA — as if they had just delivered the books.
as I said, fun.
-wendieO, librarian/ writer
Haven’t read the book yet, so I’ll be reviewing it about the time no one wants to hear my opinion on the subject.
Good point about reporting on my library’s activities. We went a little nutsy. A little loony, if you will. But it worked out in the end. I’ll see what I can remember. It’s all a big child-filled blur of color at this point.