Friday, April 1, 2005
7:00-9:30

Annual Conference Banquet

“An Evening of Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: The Perils and Pleasures of a Life of Reading”

Sponsor: Executive Board

Join colleagues for a special evening of humor with Nancy Pearl.

Nancy Pearl, the former director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, now writes, reviews books for both local and national publications, and speaks to library and community groups across the country. She reviews books regularly on NPR's Morning Edition and KUOW, the Seattle affiliate of National Public Radio. She is the author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 2003); More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 5/05); Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978 - 1998 (Libraries Unlimited, 1999) and Now Read This II: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1990-2001 (Libraries Unlimited, 2002).

Among her many honors and awards are the 2004 Women's National Book Association Award, the Brava Award from the Seattle Women’s University Club, the 2004 Louis Shores Greenwood Publishing Group Award for excellence in the reviewing of books and other materials for libraries; the 2004 Media and Communications Award from the Ontario, Canada, Library Association; the 2003 Humanities Washington Award, and the Public Library Association’s 2001 Allie Beth Martin Award. She also was named the Totem Business and Professional Women’s “1998 Woman of Achievement ” award and received the 1997 Open Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. In 1998, Library Journal named her Fiction Reviewer of the Year. She is the model for the Librarian Action Figure.

Of interest to all conference attendees.