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Another American Library Association (ALA) annual conference has come and gone. This year the librarians of America got to live it up in the nation's capital. While the librarians were sipping free champagne, schmoozing, learning how to keep their libraries current, and getting books signed, many Penguin authors were hard at work in the Penguin booth trying to get their books out to the masses and we've got video evidence to prove it!



Penguin Group (USA) had a major presence at the annual American Library Association conference in Washington DC, where 20,000 librarians converged this past weekend. The Penguin booth was packed throughout the conference with enthusiastic librarians who browsed and purchased display copies, snapped up galleys and promotional items, stood on long lines to meet signing authors, and did their best to avoid the 100 degree temperatures outside the convention center. The Academic Sales & Marketing team of Alan Walker, Dominique Jenkins, Tanya Leet, Sara Clemens and Kym Giacoppe was joined at the booth by Howard Wall and Joe Johnson from the PGI Sales division. The We Give Books program was also introduced to the library community, with the newest batch of live in-booth readers helping to push the running book donation total to over 12,000 by the end of the conference. 









