This Post is Overdue

I met author Marilyn Johnson  at the recent NELA (that's New England Library Association for those non-librarians out there) conference in Boxborough, MA. She's author of This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save us all. She's also a friend of my friend and fellow GSLIS student, Sasha. They worked together at Life magazine back in the day. So, I actually got to talk to her for a few minutes, not just shake her hand and have her autograph my book which is what usually happens when you meet authors. I forgot to bring my book with me! But I think we'll meet again so I'll be sure to bring my copy along with me. She's a super nice person.  I made the horrible faux pas of admitting that I'd [only] read half of her book. She asked me if I liked it and I said yes and then had to come up with a quick excuse for not finishing her book. The truth is, I really enjoyed what I read and told her so, however, as soon as the spring semester started I stopped reading it. I got too busy. Her book is fabulous, like a long love letter about librarians. For me, though, she's preaching to the choir. I know how fabulous librarians are. I just hope that non-librarians are reading her book too. Librarians don't often toot their own horns about how we are saving the world (?!) so it's nice to have people like Marilyn Johnson tell the rest of the world how wonderful we are.