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February 1, 2007

When is a bookcart not a bookcart? When it is a piece of art!

Any description I tried to come-up with for this Jan. 22, 2007 post on the Overdue Media Blog, would be totally inadequate to describe this visual feast…….

Unshelved News: Pimp My Bookcart Contest Winners, part I
posted Monday, January 22, 2007 9:55:00 PM PST by Bill

This was a bigger deal than we anticipated. We thought our “Pimp my Book Cart” contest was a funny idea that would spawn a dozen or so entries. But it seemed to spark something, and we started hearing from folks all over the country. It even spawned a “Pimp my Book Trolley” contest Down Under in Australia (we’re judging that one too).

Still, by last week we figured all the fuss had been just that, and that it was still going to be just a few contenders. But then a few days before the deadline, in a display of procrastination that impressed Bill, they started pouring in. We ended up getting over 100. Gene and I scrambled to organize and evaluate them (thanks, iPhoto!). Several times at ALA we left our booth in the capable hands of our store manager Jana so that we could look at almost 400 pictures of book carts that had been pimped up, down, in, and out. Finally this morning we reached agreement on the winner, several runners-up, and many honorable mentions. In the next week we’ll publish a mostly complete list of the entries, but we didn’t want to delay the big announcement. …MORE

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