Day of Dialog draws 400 librarians for five programs.(lj news)(forum for discussion of trends in book publishing)

LJ's annual Day of Dialog has grown significantly, and so has the presence of librarians at the nation's largest book conference, BookExpo America. Now in its tenth year, the event on May 31 drew neady 400 librarians to the McGraw-Hill Conference Canter in New York City, more than double the total in 1998 and nearly as many as the 500 librarians who registered for the larger event that year.

Day of Dialog, while intending to make librarians feel at home at a show that was once less than welcoming, also serves as a venue for librarians, publishers, authors, and others in the book world to exchange ideas. (Sponsors were HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, iUniverse, McGraw-Hill, Perseus Books, and Sterling …