A handful of local authors will make themselves available to be “checked out” at the library this Saturday in celebration of Alaska Book Week.

The “Local Authors Library” will run from 1 to 2:30 p.m. People can spend 20 minutes with each author to ask questions and learn more about Alaska writing, said Jessie Morgan, the library’s education and cultural coordinator.

Authors Heather Lende (“If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name”), Nick Jans (“A Wolf Called Romeo”), Debi Knight Kennedy (“Becoming Pearls”), Mark Zeiger (“Sacred Coffee: A ‘Homesteader’s’ Paradigm”) and Judy Hall Jacobson (“Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Alaska”) will be available for check-out.

Morgan described the event as “a speed-dating human library.”

Morgan said the library held a regular panel discussion with authors last year, but wanted to make the event more interactive this year. “This is kind of an opportunity for people to come up and talk to them one-on-one and ask their own specific questions,” she said.

Alaska Book Week is Oct. 3-10. Morgan said the library will have a display featuring work by Haines and Alaska authors.