Nancy Pearl signs her books for  Dr. Sabine Homilius, Director of the Frankfurt City Library

Nancy Pearl promotes Love of Books in Southwestern Germany
October 15+16, 2007. Nancy Pearl, librarian, author and television host visited the city libraries of Frankfurt and Stuttgart as well as the library of the German American Institute in Tübingen and the German National Library in Frankfurt on October 15 and 16.  She discussed a broad range of issues with the libraries' staffs and professors of the local media university, including readers' advisory services, the role of the library in a community, library outreach, digitization, as well as her books "Book Lust" and "Book Crush." 

At the Frankfurt city library, she engaged librarians from all over the world in a webchat organized by the state department during which she encouraged them to organize more programs like poetry readings, book talks, and political discussions to bring more people into the library. 

At the evening program at the German National Library Ms. Pearl introduced her theory that libraries are like three-legged foot stools, and like any good stool, the legs need to be of equal length to provide maximum usefulness and stability. In library terms, those "legs" are technology, reader’s advisory services, and outreach and programming. She advocated that more attention be paid to the latter two services in order to keep libraries at the center of their communities. A lively discussion concluded the program.

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