Mrs. Bligh and I had a great, I mean, productive and educational time in Cowtown for our annual Texas Library Association conference. I had the pleasure of hobnobbing with authors such as K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr of the recently penned, Loki's Wolves. It sounds great! Many thanks to the lovely women at Little Brown who graciously invited me to dinner (at Ruth's Chris, nonetheless) and gave me the opportunity to meet the authors and get an autographed copy of the book. I'm a sucker for those.
I attended the annual, much anticipated Teri Lesesne booktalk in which she gives a quick rundown of the top one hundred or so of the newest must-reads. Although self-titled the Goddess of YA Literature, no one would argue with that moniker. My book list for next year is already growing. But please stop by so we can talk about everything coming out!
I also think I'm going to undertake suggesting a library social media policy for the district....we'll see. Lots of things to think about. Whoops, how can I forget? Mrs. Bligh and I want to be the first school in the district to create a mobile app for the library. What features would you like to see? Off the top of our head we're thinking: holds, re-checks (no more overdues, dreamy) and book requests - in addition to database access, etc. Your thoughts?
We did miss you all. But not the testing.
PS If you are reading this at all, you have Mercedes to thank. I took a break from the blog life last year, but once I heard Mercede's story (and she said I could share) I decided to pick it back up. As a newbie to McNeil, Mercedes spent her summer looking up stuff about MN and other local schools to figure out where she wanted to go. As a library frequent flier, as we like to say, she spent time on our site and reading this blog. That's when she knew she wanted to go to MN.
Makes your heart swell just a bit, doesn't it? So to Mercedes and my two other readers, this is all for you! Thank you for reading.
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