Publishers should welcome--and BEA should more actively encourage--librarian attendance
-- Library Journal, 04/27/2010
In Publishers Weekly, Lauren Gilbert, information services manager, Cold Spring Harbor Library, NY, writes an essay on BookExpo America headlined A Librarian Walks into...:
If Rodney Dangerfield were a librarian at BEA, he might say: “we don't get any respect.” (Dangerfield, M.L.S., has excellent grammar.) Librarians are considered the dowdy, poor relations at the BEA publishing family reunions. We pay less to attend, and we don't spend much money there, and so our long-lost cousins in publishing are not always overjoyed to see us at the party. Last year at BEA, I was amused by the special “librarian-friendly” welcome mats in selected booths, which made me wonder what that implied about the others. But librarians are a big part of BEA—and we could be even bigger.
