This was the first librarian convention Smultron Publications; they purchased booth space in order to learn how libraries and librarians, work...and we did.

We've decided that librarians are most like nurses in their profession: they love helping and giving of themselves.

Jerry Revelle was there talking to librarians about his books.  Because it was in "Scandihoovian Country" (Minneapolis Minnesota) librarians of Nordic Heritage were well represented and we had a big banner stating "Great Scandinavian Fiction" that could be easily seen several aisles away.

The great photos from Tess Nahlboom (Dalarna Sweden) for Vallkulla were blown up and displayed on our booth backdrop.  Her beautiful photo work brought lots of great comments from visitors who learned more than they wanted to know about fäbodliv...life in the summer farms and and the young women who worked them...vallkullor (Sweden)...seter jente (Norwegian).

As usual, everyone stopped to tell their story and pass the time with Jerry to learn about his stories.
There was significant interest from non-Nordics about the WW-II theme of "My Enemy's Child"; this subject continues to keep library books in circulation and we learned a good deal from their sharing.

We'd polled some of the libraries where Jerry's books had been available for the past year and they gave us some circulation statistics to pass along to librarians.  Basically, they were that the books had been in near constant circulation, with from two to twenty holds (that's people waiting to read the book) during the previous twelve months.

Thanks loads to everyone who came by and shared with us and thanks especially, for your advice and encouragement...and the purchases that eventually came from the contact.