Seattle’s own librarian extraordinaire Nancy Pearl is adding two more accolades to her curriculum vitae this evening at Elliott Bay Book Company, where her long-time publisher Sasquatch Books will present awards for lifetime achievement from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and for 2011 Librarian of the Year from the Library Journal. The only librarian (that we know of) with her very own action figure, Pearl is the former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library; the author of half a dozen books on, well, loving books, including Book Lust and Book Crush; and the brains behind the “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book” program that spread across the country in the late ’90s. She also regularly contributes her literary recommendations to NPR and was the 50th recipient of the Women’s National Book Association Award in 2004. Sasquatch president Gary Luke will be on hand this evening to sing Pearl’s praises, and Pearl herself will give a brief talk. And as if there already wasn’t enough reason to add these festivities to your evening schedule, the presentation is free and open to the public — which can also imbibe on complimentary wine and nosh on free apps. more ›

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