Shaffer & Tulsa City-County Library Host Nancy Pearl

Gary Shaffer, Tulsa City-County Library, and the University of Oklahoma Tulsa campus were delighted to host Nancy Pearl during her recent visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nancy, who once worked at the Tulsa City-County Library, was in rare form as she delighted an audience as part of the university's Seed Sower series  with her talk, "The Perils of a Life of Reading."

While in town she toured library branches with Shaffer and sat on the review committee for MLIS Student Laura Raphael's successful defense of her portfolio project, which focused on readers' advisory services.

Cartoonist Raise Funds for Tornado-damaged Okla. School Libraries

Tulsa City-County Library, working with Pioneer Library System, partner with four leading cartoonists to raise money to help rebuild Moore, Okla. public school libraries damaged or destroyed during the May 20, tornado.

Cartoonists Jeff Kinney, Lincoln Pierce, Dav Pilkey, and Stephan Pastis join the library's mascot Buddy Bookworm as they perform at two Drawn Together: Cartoonist Benefit Moore Oklahoma School Libraries in Tulsa and Norman, Okla. Together over $70,000 was raised. Today the libraries are rebuilt and are used every school day.