OUR AUTHORS PITCH IN SELLING TO LIBRARIANS

By Richard Polese, Coordinator

TEN NMBA AUTHORS turned up to introduce their titles and yours to the state’s librarians for three days as October leapt into November at the NMLA Annual Conference. Sales will be reported soon to members whose titles were seen and sold there at our tables in Albuquerque’s Marriott Pyramid Hotel.
             
Janet and Erin Brennan, Patricia Brown, Jared Gann, David Froebel, Laurie McDonald, Larry Kemp, Roberta Parry, Barbara Jean Ruther, and Sandi Wright all came aboard — giving us a great presence during all three days. You see here most of us in this view of our place provided by Sandi. (Let me know if you were left out!)
 
Our location in the main hall was less than ideal, but we innovated to help draw library people to us as they went in and out of the conference sessions.
 
We learned that next year the annual gathering of New Mexico’s librarians will move to the Albuquerque Hotel in Old Town. It will be joined there by the annual meeting of the widespread Mountains and Plains Library Association.