for the librarian action figure instead? Or is it more like Where’s Waldo?
(No, I’m not saying the librarian action figure looks like Waldo, though it does bare a distant resemblance to a Waldo I once knew …)
Addendum 8/8: Having posted this yesterday, it was a rather odd experience to watch the Flat Stanley portion [...]
"This week Pearl, the country’s most famous librarian (there are no candidates for second place), is retiring from her job as director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library."
Nancy is the model for the librarian action figure. I had the honor of hearing her speak in April. She’s made many [...]
Librarian.net and LIS News claim Nancy Pearl, model for the librarian action figure, is retiring. Now don’t you wish you would have bid on the autographed one I gave to the Special Libraries Association News Division auction?
Best wishes, Nancy!
My Dad, who earned his MBA with honors this week and won’t let me forget it, pointed me to this article about Nancy Pearl’s retirement with a photo of her making a shushing motion.
What also caught my eye about this online article is the Letter to Our Readers ad on the right side discussing why [...]
Why yoga of course! I’ve never listened to the audio or video clips on this site but I can tell you that George Bush can do a mean Virabhadrasna III….
I don’t think Nancy Pearl, the Librarian Action Figure, is quite this agile.
I know that j is very fond of the Nancy Pearl Librarian Action Figure so I couldn’t resist this. Thank you Vernica for blogging this first.
NPR interviewed librarian and action figure model Nancy Pearl to learn about books about politics she thinks people should read.
I recently witnessed Nancy’s ability to recommend books. She’s very good at it.
From LIS News
That’s something I hadn’t considered until reading Vernica’s blog tonight. Since I don’t work in a library, I guess it never occurred to me that my librarian action figure might be unhappy just standing on top of the computer on my desk near her books.
If you like reading or talking about books, you’ll probably enjoy reading my notes about Nancy Pearl’s talk and her book Book Lust.
And, yes, she did talk about the action figure briefly at the end.