Librarian Eduardo Zepeda (pictured) won $20,000 worth of graphic novels and prizes in the Great Graphic Novel Library Giveaway at the Texas Library Association’s (TLA) annual conference.
Zepeda’s library, the Weslaco Public Library, will be endowed with 700 graphic novels, fixtures, and furniture.
Here’s more from the press release: “The Great Graphic Novel Library Giveaway was open to Texas public and school librarians. Twenty semifinalists were selected on Thursday evening, and the winning librarian was chosen on Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. Central time by Gene Ambaum, librarian and cocreator of the online comic strip Unshelved.”