Library Resources

Authors to Alaska: Making the Author Connections

The Alaska Library Association has a roundtable of members called "Authors to Alaska" (A2A, for short) made up of public, school and other librarians interested in coordinating author visits to Alaska. A current list of Alaska authors is available from Carol Race, the A2A Chair. Also, the Youth Services Librarians at the Anchorage Municipal Libraries and Children's Librarians at the North Star Borough Public Library in Fairbanks can usually give you information about planned author visits for any given year. Reading coordinators of the large school districts are also usually active participants in bringing authors to Alaska. The Alaska Center for the Book frequently supports author visits as well and includes members from booksellers who also sponsor visits.

Unless you are experienced at arranging visits and have contacts with authors and publishers yourself, it would probably be best to rely on, or at least coordinate with, one of these groups for scheduling visits by authors from outside Alaska.

• Author visits »
  Planning the visit, the visit and after the visit information.

• Alaskan authors »
  This list of authors interest in making school visits was originated by Chrystal Carr Jeter in 1995, updated and expanded in 2000 by Lois A. Petersen and added to as contacts are made by interested authors.