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Librarian Turned Author, Carole Estby Dagg!

Please Roar today’s guest, author Carole Estby Dagg! Carole has stopped by to share her Library Love with us, and what better person to do that than a former librarian turned author! A Bit of Background – Carole the Librarian Carole started volunteering in her school library in 1952, later she worked her way through… Read more

Welcome Elizabeth Bird NYPL

Welcome to Library Lions interviews Raising a Roar for Libraries and for the outstanding Librarians serving Children and Young Adults in Schools and Public Libraries across the U.S. Please Roar today’s guest, Elizabeth Bird! Elizabeth is the children’s librarian at New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building! Here are the famed Library Lions of… Read more

I just flew home from ALA Chicago A most magnificent experience meeting nation wide librarians (according to ALA roughly 25,000 library leaders and supporters)touring publishing houses with their newest offerings (like wending through a gold mine), meeting the indomitable Egmont USA team: Douglas Pocock, Elizabeth Law, Regina Griffin, Mary Albi, and Ellen Greene. Chatting and… Read more