Librarian Adventures

So, there's this game show on NPR called "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me." It's great. It's a weekly news quiz, where people call in and answer questions about the week's news and win Carl Kasell's voice on their home answering machine.

It may not sound like much on paper, but trust me, it's great.

And this is a library adventure because?


Librarians, as it turns out, travel far and wide to meet with each other and talk about their libraries. I kid you not. I've been to a few. They're oddly fun.

Right now, this very moment (if you are reading this blog post as I am writing it) a BIG library conference is going on. The American Library Association summer conference in Chicago.


Tie this together for me Devin.

'Wait, Wait' is taped before a live audience in Chicago. The fine people at ALA (specifically ALTAFF) reserved the entire auditorium for librarians for this week's show. If you listen to this week's show (episode airing July 11 @ 1pm) everyone in the audience is a librarian.

The librarians have taken and adventure, and found themselves at a game show in Chicago. I'm not going to lie to you, librarians are kind of cool.