Hannah Parker, now a supervising librarian at the Fremont Branch of the Seattle Public Library, said a conversation with Nancy influenced her as well. You need to go to library school.” Which she did-crediting Nancy’s “ongoing connection and generosity” with propelling her into the profession and a lifetime of meaningful work. When Nancy first began consulting with CCPL, Jen was an account executive at a radio station working with Nancy to develop CCPL’s marketing campaign, “Pearl’s Picks.” One day, as they talked books, Nancy paused and said, “Jen, you are a librarian. The experience was also meaningful for our staff, including my former CCPL colleague Jennifer Jumba. When the year was over, I didn’t just want to have a professional relationship with Nancy, I wanted her to move in next door so we could be best friends and drink coffee and talk books every day. Over the course of a year, Nancy visited CCPL for about a week each month to work with staff on their “Readers Advisory” skills. In 2008, when I was executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, we were fortunate to bring Nancy on as a consultant for our “Reconnect with Reading” program. But getting to know Nancy Pearl changed me personally, as a librarian as well as a reader, and it set me off on a new professional trajectory.
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