American Libraries

Fresh from her rousing speech at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. (in part celebrating American Libraries' 100th anniversary), performer and author Julie Andrews joins her daughter, children's author Emma Walton Hamilton, at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library to read from their new book The Great American Mousical. ALA President Leslie Burger also announces Andrews as the honorary chair of 2008 National Library Week. Transcript (Opens in new tab or window).