New Voices, New Rooms, the joint annual booksellers conference for the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, is taking place this week in Baltimore, Md. As the show kicked off, NAIBA executive director Eileen Dengler (standing, in yellow), SIBA executive director Linda-Marie Barrett (standing, in black jacket), and incoming NAIBA executive director Liz Hottel (seated, far r.) posed with staff members. This is Dengler's final show before her retirement later this year. (photo: S.P. Rankin)