Kicking off this next post of Librarian Love, I want to share the soapbox with a couple of librarians.

Here’s a piece written by one of our district’s librarians and published in the local paper. A good read. With all the points we seem to get, but the folks in charge don’t. Weird.

And then here’s a call to action by friend/author/librarian Jeanette Larson. (It’s a facebook note so I’m not totally certain that you all can access it. I hope so, though…)

In the meantime, yesterday I thanked the librarians who’ve been especially important to my daughters. Today, I want to sing the praises of all the many librarians who’ve been supportive of me, as an author. Those who’ve invited me for school visits or storytimes or special programs.  Those who’ve ordered my books for their libraries. Those who’ve read my books at their own storytimes.

I am not only grateful for these librarians, but also just feel plain lucky to know them. These relationships are one huge job perk — one I hadn’t necessarily anticipated when I started all this, but am really appreciative of now.

There’s no way I can make a complete list, but I’m going to make a partial one. 
If I’ve missed you, I’m sorry — and no less grateful…

Libby Weed
Carrie Bartsch
Carrie Midkiff
Gayla Thompson
Rebecca Miller
Jenny Day
Ginna Wimmer
Dayna Dees
Laurie Harwell
Nancy Gilbert
Annette Hodges
Suzanne Wofford
Kate Slaten
Emily Gardner
Diane Collier
Steffanie Audel
Betsy Crosby
Anita Rizley
Bonnie Seelig
Stephanie Shipman
Alison O’Reilly
Debbie Keith
Christina McGehee
Renee Mick
Don Bos
Celeste Pustka
Patricia Vermillion
Barbara Allen
Sarah Parramore
Zonia Smith
Meg Anthony
Patricia Hernandez
Emily Dejong
Melanie Letendre
Maureen Slocum
Amanda Braziel

Wow. That is a lot of great folks.
Lucky me, and lucky all those kids touched by books and the librarians who love them.

If you want to shout out to your favorite librarians, join me in this week’s efforts!
Here’s your formal invitation.

Namaste.