{"id":12303,"date":"2016-01-09T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12303"},"modified":"2016-01-10T18:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:19:56","slug":"harry-potter-alliance-and-youth-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/harry-potter-alliance-and-youth-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Alliance and Youth Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While browsing the exhibits at ALA Midwinter, I came upon\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehpalliance.org\/\">Harry Potter Alliance<\/a>\u00a0and its work on organizing youth to participate in National Library Legislative Day &#8211; mainly by creating local chapters in schools, libraries, youth centers, etc.. to enlist passionate readers in\u00a0youth advocacy. \u00a0Of course, I also had to buy this wicked awesome\u00a0(note\u00a0my attempt at Boston lingo!) t-shirt:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hermione.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12304 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hermione-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"hermione\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hermione-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hermione.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These local chapters &#8220;serve as an access point for young people who are passionate about stories to become civically engaged and lead projects that improve their communities.&#8221; (thehpalliance.org) \u00a0The HPA envisions librarians being &#8220;most heavily involved in creating their chapters, planning the first few meetings, and identifying potential leaders among the young people in attendance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are you as intrigued as I am? You can send questions\u00a0via a\u00a0virtual owl (HPA brilliant lingo!) to their Chapters Staff at chapters@thehpalliance.org to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing the exhibits at ALA Midwinter, I came upon\u00a0the Harry Potter Alliance\u00a0and its work on organizing youth to participate in National Library Legislative Day &#8211; mainly by creating local chapters in schools, libraries, youth centers, etc.. to enlist passionate readers in\u00a0youth advocacy. \u00a0Of course, I also had to buy this wicked awesome\u00a0(note\u00a0my attempt at Boston lingo!) t-shirt: These local chapters &#8220;serve as an access point for young people who are passionate about stories to become civically engaged and lead projects that improve their communities.&#8221; (thehpalliance.org) \u00a0The HPA envisions librarians being &#8220;most heavily involved in creating their chapters, planning the first few meetings, and identifying potential leaders among the young people in attendance.&#8221; Are you as intrigued as I am? You can send questions\u00a0via a\u00a0virtual owl (HPA brilliant lingo!) to their Chapters Staff at chapters@thehpalliance.org to learn more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"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":[877,7,11,765,58,151],"tags":[253,895,189,564,800],"class_list":["post-12303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2016","category-call-to-action","category-priority-group-i","category-collaboration","category-legislative-issues","category-live-blogging","tag-advocacy","tag-alamw16","tag-books","tag-everyday-advocacy","tag-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}