{"id":12317,"date":"2016-01-11T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12317"},"modified":"2016-01-11T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:11:35","slug":"alsc-process-committees-not-glamorous-monday-morning-super-worthwhile-alamw16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/alsc-process-committees-not-glamorous-monday-morning-super-worthwhile-alamw16\/","title":{"rendered":"ALSC Process &amp; Program Committees May Not Be Glamorous on Monday Morning, but are Super Worthwhile #alamw16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about ALSC committees like Newbery &amp; Caldecott, but there is a galaxy of other committees full of dedicated librarians that make ALSC tick and support us all in our work.<\/p>\n<p>Serving on a process\u00a0committee like Membership, Grants Administration, or Organization and Bylaws provides opportunities to build relationships with other librarians, while also building leadership skills, looking at ALSC: The Big Picture, and guiding how ALSC operates and serves us all.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of these groups require attending a conference, there are virtual committees too.\u00a0These\u00a0can be really excellent for finding mentors and building a librarian community\u00a0if you&#8217;re feeling isolated.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the roster of opportuntities on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/coms\">ALSC Committees page <\/a>&amp; fill out your volunteer form today!\u00a0 Join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about ALSC committees like Newbery &amp; Caldecott, but there is a galaxy of other committees full of dedicated librarians that make ALSC tick and support us all in our work. Serving on a process\u00a0committee like Membership, Grants Administration, or Organization and Bylaws provides opportunities to build relationships with other librarians, while also building leadership skills, looking at ALSC: The Big Picture, and guiding how ALSC operates and serves us all. Not all of these groups require attending a conference, there are virtual committees too.\u00a0These\u00a0can be really excellent for finding mentors and building a librarian community\u00a0if you&#8217;re feeling isolated. Check out the roster of opportuntities on the ALSC Committees page &amp; fill out your volunteer form today!\u00a0 Join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"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":[877,151],"tags":[895,681,903],"class_list":["post-12317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2016","category-live-blogging","tag-alamw16","tag-committees","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}