2014 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Two Decades with The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Sherlock Holmes

Start Date

6-30-2014 8:30 AM

End Date

6-30-2014 10:00 AM

Co-Sponsoring Scion Organization

ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services)

City and State

Las Vegas, NV

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Two Decades with The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Sherlock Holmes

Marsha Pollak welcomed everyone to the 37th (Irregular) Annual meeting Monday morning. The traditional toasts were given: Lomax by Paula Perry (in absentia); Sherlock Holmes by Gary Thaden; Hill Barton by George Scheetz (in absentia); Baron Gruner by Joe Coppola; and Kitty Winter by Elaine Coppola.

Laurie R. King spoke to the Sub-Librarians and all Sherlockians and mystery fans. Celebrating the Twentieth anniversary of the first of Mary Russell's memoirs, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie talked about the adventures shared by Russell and the World's Greatest Consulting Detective.

This program was sponsored by ALCTS (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services). Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of 22 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (from The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, named one of the 20th century’s best crime novels by the IMBA, to 2014′s Dreaming Spies). She has won or been nominated for an alphabet of prizes from Agatha to Wolfe, been chosen as guest of honor at several crime conventions, and is probably the only writer to have both an Edgar and an honorary doctorate in theology. She was inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars in 2010, as “The Red Circle”. From the author's website.

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2014 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Two Decades with The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Sherlock Holmes

Two Decades with The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Sherlock Holmes

Marsha Pollak welcomed everyone to the 37th (Irregular) Annual meeting Monday morning. The traditional toasts were given: Lomax by Paula Perry (in absentia); Sherlock Holmes by Gary Thaden; Hill Barton by George Scheetz (in absentia); Baron Gruner by Joe Coppola; and Kitty Winter by Elaine Coppola.

Laurie R. King spoke to the Sub-Librarians and all Sherlockians and mystery fans. Celebrating the Twentieth anniversary of the first of Mary Russell's memoirs, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie talked about the adventures shared by Russell and the World's Greatest Consulting Detective.

This program was sponsored by ALCTS (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services). Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of 22 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (from The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, named one of the 20th century’s best crime novels by the IMBA, to 2014′s Dreaming Spies). She has won or been nominated for an alphabet of prizes from Agatha to Wolfe, been chosen as guest of honor at several crime conventions, and is probably the only writer to have both an Edgar and an honorary doctorate in theology. She was inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars in 2010, as “The Red Circle”. From the author's website.