{"id":10152,"date":"2015-01-31T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2015-02-01T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T21:30:34","slug":"library-legislative-day-alamw15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/library-legislative-day-alamw15\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Legislative Day at #alamw15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at the ALSC Leadership \u00a0Meeting, Jenna Nemec-Loise gave a great elevator pitch for Library Legislative Day. What is LLD? It&#8217;s a chance for you to meet with your legislators and tell them that libraries are important!<\/p>\n<p>I am sad to say that I didn&#8217;t know Library Legislative Day existed. This year it&#8217;s on May 4th and 5th. Among the many calls to action the ALA Washington office are working on, I was most fired up by calls to keep funding LSAT (which helps target funding for people with limited literacy skills and access to the library); advocating for Net Neutrality; and requiring that every public school in the US have a state certified school librarian on staff.<\/p>\n<p>Will you you journey to DC for Library Legislative Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at the ALSC Leadership \u00a0Meeting, Jenna Nemec-Loise gave a great elevator pitch for Library Legislative Day. What is LLD? It&#8217;s a chance for you to meet with your legislators and tell them that libraries are important! I am sad to say that I didn&#8217;t know Library Legislative Day existed. This year it&#8217;s on May 4th and 5th. Among the many calls to action the ALA Washington office are working on, I was most fired up by calls to keep funding LSAT (which helps target funding for people with limited literacy skills and access to the library); advocating for Net Neutrality; and requiring that every public school in the US have a state certified school librarian on staff. Will you you journey to DC for Library Legislative Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[653,236,7,11,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2015","category-blogger-elisabeth-gattullo","category-call-to-action","category-priority-group-i","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}