Leonard Kniffel's blog

New York City welcomed the 10 winners of the 2009 I Love My Librarian Award with the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. At least the timing made it look that way, and some 750,000 extra people in the streets made it seem as if the entire city had turned out to welcome America’s favorite librarians to the December 3 award ceremony at the splendid New York Times building on Eighth Avenue.