{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"ALSC Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog","author_name":"Elisabeth Gattullo Marrocolla","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/author\/elisabeth-gattullo\/","title":"Language Collections","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fCSqlZ580p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/language-collections\/\">Language Collections<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/language-collections\/embed\/#?secret=fCSqlZ580p\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Language Collections&#8221; &#8212; ALSC Blog\" data-secret=\"fCSqlZ580p\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Last year at the direction of Claire Moore, our then-Assistant Head and now Head of Children&#8217;s Services, our library sought to expand our Kids Languages collection.We had a very healthy collection of Spanish picture books, but our other language selections were rather sparse. French, German, and Italian each had about 1\/3 of a shelf of titles to call their own, and the remaining languages were shelved together at the end of the collection. We began by tripling the yearly budget for the languages collection at the start of the fiscal year. This was followed by a very thorough weed of the existing languages collection. We moved our pared-down collection to a new home in a spot we thought it would get more attention, and got to work beefing up the number of books and materials on the shelf.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t want to purchase just anything, though. We had weeded a...","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/l1-300x225.jpg"}