Volume 6, August 19, 2010 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) JAN’S FINAL WASHINGTON READS 2) APPLY FOR A POSITION ON THE LIBRARY COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON 3) HISTORICAL PORT TOWNSEND PAPER GOES ONLINE 4) BOOKS FOR BABIES MATCHING GRANTS 5) ARE YOU READY? COMES TO SPOKANE 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK 7) LSSC OFFERS COURSE SUBSIDIES
I’ll avoid any cliches about gifts that keep on giving. Instead, I’ll jump straight in and admit that I, like many librarians, am an NPR nerd. I adore NPR for a number of reasons (though I will say that it was Ira Glass who first got me hooked). I also particularly enjoy their segments with librarian Nancy Pearl on book recommendations. Nancy Pearl was once-upon-a-time the Director of Library Programming at the Seattle Public Library. These days she reads and…