Centurion

This is post number 100 for Shelf Consumed!  Thanks to all of you who so kindly click in occasionally.  Group hug to librarians, my favorite folks ever.

Be watching on February 4 for a guest post from Ashley Hope-Perez, author of What Can(t) Wait, newly-named to the Best Fiction for Young Adults List for 2012!  Good stuff!

Any other guest bloggers out there?  I'd love to hear from you on a variety of topics that impact libraries and librarians.  We have really important stuff to say about really important things!

U.S. Poet Laureate for Children at Parish

Are you in the Dallas metroplex area?  If so, please join us for the first annual Parish Literary Festival on Tuesday, February 21 from 4:00-6:00.

Our special guest will be Dr. J. Patrick Lewis, United States Poet Laureate for Children.

The event is free and open to the public.  For more information, check out this blog!

BFYA rocks!

These seven great upper school students gave up an entire Sunday to attend the ALA conference in Dallas and offer feedback on the Best Fiction for Young Adults list nominees.  Their opinion of the conference?  Awesome!

They've been reading from the list of nominations since September and had a great time not only in giving their opinions to the committee, but also in getting ARCs in the exhibit hall and being treated to a pizza lunch by the super folks at Penguin.

Most of their favorites made the final list, and their only disappointment was in remembering that the conference won't be held in the Dallas area next year so they can make a repeat performance!

Cool tools: The Parish library mobile app!

The Parish libraries are 'app'ening places this week with the exciting rollout of our brand new mobile library app!

Patrons click a button on our website (see above) which takes them to a hosted URL.  Once they add the link to their home screen, they are ready to access the following library services from their smartphones:

*text a librarian

*email a librarian

*access the digital library powered by Overdrive (also new!)

*search our online catalogs

*follow our blogs for book recommendations and library happenings

*access online databases

Check out the Parish mobile library app below!