{"id":11591,"date":"2015-09-24T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=11591"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T20:47:11","slug":"to-holiday-or-not-to-holiday-caption-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/to-holiday-or-not-to-holiday-caption-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"To holiday or not to holiday + Caption Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-top-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11596 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-top-01-789x1024.jpg\" alt=\"holidays-top-01\" width=\"640\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-top-01-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-top-01-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-top-01.jpg 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-bottom01-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11597 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-bottom01-01-801x1024.jpg\" alt=\"holidays-bottom01-01\" width=\"640\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-bottom01-01-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-bottom01-01-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/holidays-bottom01-01.jpg 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Original comic by Lisa Nowlain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So! This debate seems to be a great button-pusher in the Children&#8217;s Librarian world. Here&#8217;s my two cents &#8211; and I do want to locate my comic in my identity as an agnostic\/white lady librarian. The comments and points were pulled from the following blogs, and were summaries and paraphrases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/storytimeunderground.org\/2014\/11\/12\/librarians-check-your-holidays-at-the-door\/\">Librarians, Check Your Holidays at the Door &#8211; Kendra Jones &#8211; Storytime Underground &#8211; 11\/12\/2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/speaking-out-about-holiday-programming-at-the-library\/\">Speaking out about Holiday Programming at the Library &#8211; Kendra Jones &#8211; ALSC Blog &#8211; 12\/25\/2014\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/2014\/11\/diversity\/ditch-holiday-programming-opinion\/#_\">Ditch Holiday Programming &#8211; Kendra Jones &#8211; School Library Journal &#8211; 11\/24\/2014\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/2014\/12\/blogs\/read-roger\/crankypants-monday\/#_\">Crankypants Monday &#8211; Roger Sutton &#8211; Horn Book &#8211; 12\/1\/2014\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jbrary.com\/jumping-off-holiday-ban-wagon\/\">Jumping Off the Holiday Bandwagon &#8211; Lindsey Krabbenhoft &#8211; Jbrary &#8211; 11\/26\/2014\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>and this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=494402784051471&amp;set=gm.994146220636574&amp;type=1\">Facebook<\/a> post by Rebecca McCorkindale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s Caption Contest (I promise it will be monthly! The summer break is over, officially &#8211; I&#8217;m even wearing a sweater\u00a0today!)\u00a0Fill out this <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/N64Ef8T1Dr\">Google Form<\/a> to provide your caption and participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mysterystain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mysterystain-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"mysterystain\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mysterystain-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mysterystain-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/coloring-page-days-of-rage-caption-contest\/\">last post&#8217;s<\/a> Caption Contest was Carrie Hummel! See the final comic\u00a0below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/robotfinal-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/robotfinal-01-1024x1020.jpg\" alt=\"robotfinal-01\" width=\"640\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/robotfinal-01-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/robotfinal-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/robotfinal-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/robotfinal-01.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Nowlain is the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Fellow and Children\u2019s Librarian at Darien Library in Darien, CT. She is also an artist-type (see more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisanowlain.com\/\">www.lisanowlain.com<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original comic by Lisa Nowlain So! This debate seems to be a great button-pusher in the Children&#8217;s Librarian world. Here&#8217;s my two cents &#8211; and I do want to locate my comic in my identity as an agnostic\/white lady librarian. The comments and points were pulled from the following blogs, and were summaries and paraphrases: Librarians, Check Your Holidays at the Door &#8211; Kendra Jones &#8211; Storytime Underground &#8211; 11\/12\/2014 Speaking out about Holiday Programming at the Library &#8211; Kendra Jones &#8211; ALSC Blog &#8211; 12\/25\/2014\u00a0 Ditch Holiday Programming &#8211; Kendra Jones &#8211; School Library Journal &#8211; 11\/24\/2014\u00a0 Crankypants Monday &#8211; Roger Sutton &#8211; Horn Book &#8211; 12\/1\/2014\u00a0 Jumping Off the Holiday Bandwagon &#8211; Lindsey Krabbenhoft &#8211; Jbrary &#8211; 11\/26\/2014\u00a0 and this Facebook post by Rebecca McCorkindale &nbsp; &nbsp; This month&#8217;s Caption Contest (I promise it will be monthly! The summer break is over, officially &#8211; I&#8217;m even wearing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[134,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-programming-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}