Those of You Inclined to Start Working for the George Peabody Library, Say Aye
In spite of the fact that the Kidlit Drink Night was scheduled for the first night of Rosh Hashanah, we had a nice turn out at Sweet & Vicious yesterday. Scholastic and Little Brown & Co. (or are you Holtzbrink now?) came out in full force. There was a showing by The Group That Shall Not Be Named (Harry Potter based, as if you couldn’t tell), Longstockings, people I didn’t get a chance to talk to (sorry!), and Meghan McCarthy. All in all, a good time was had and the bar was nice enough to actually reserve us tables and everything. Suh-weet.
On to the news.
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From Cynopsis Kids: "WGBH Boston Video will release The Masterpiece Theatre Family Collection on DVD this October 23, 2007. The DVD set is comprised of adaptations of four beloved kid’s books, Pollyanna, The Railway Children, Carrie’s War, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips." Woo-hoo! "Carrie’s War"! And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I friggin’ loved that book.
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Library furniture ephemera hit of the day: The See-Saw Bookshelf (found via bookshelves of doom).
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Jules and Eisha put up their top picture book picks of the year. Um… it’s…. oh, let’s just say extensive. And that is not a bad thing.
- Alison Morris at the ShelfTalker blog is discussing the concept of shelving children’s books by subject… in bookstores. Considering all the brous and ha has that have erupted from libraries shelving their books like a bookstore would… well you’ll forgive me if I don’t find this all more than a little ironic.
- Oops! Guess that whole free books thing wasn’t working out so well for Google. Now they’re charging. Thanks to Bookninja.
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And finally, something purdy. I love where I work. I do. It’s a magnificent collection but the building itself is a bit late 60’s/early 70’s/omigod isn’t turquoise just the best color EVER! for my tastes. Care for a bit of the old drop dead gorgeous interior architecture of other libraries then? Of course you do. Thanks again to Bookninja for the link. Now pardon my drool.
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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 Horn Book, 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 Twitter: @fuseeight.
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Since when is Goodbye Mr. Chips a children’s book?
Oh. Wow. I’m salivating over those libraries. But I’m guessing that none of them have “Anne of Green Gables” in them, which is a shame.
Man, I was so *conflicted* about not going to KidLit Drink Night last night! I stayed close to home and hearth, cooking up a mean lobster fettuccine with marsala butter for dinner, enjoying all the autumness…but I have a view of Manhattan from my bedroom and I kept looking out there, thinking about how much fun you were all having. Shoot. I’ll be sure to swing the next one.
Mmm. Well it’s hard to compete with lobster fettuccine with *drool* marsala butter, I’ll grant you. But it was most certainly fun. We’ll have another in November or so, and hopefully I’ll see you then!
thanks for organizing a super fun drinks night! i’m already looking forward to the next one.
and wow, that is some gorgeous library there!