{"id":12353,"date":"2016-01-12T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2016-01-12T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:00:55","slug":"reflecting-on-ala-midwinter-alamw16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/reflecting-on-ala-midwinter-alamw16\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on ALA Midwinter #alamw16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all packed and ready to catch a plane back home, tired but re-energized &amp; excited to begin to utilize some of the resources and information I&#8217;ve learned while at ALA Midwinter in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the highlights of the conference, I think of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The information I learned at the ALSC Collection Management Discussion Group session and the decision to create a Facebook page for the group; this will surely be a good place for ongoing discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The announcement of Pat Scales as the 2016 recipient of ALSC&#8217;s Distinguished Service Award. A former middle school and high school librarian and a passionate advocate for children&#8217;s intellectual freedom, it was exciting to see her receive this well-deserved award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sitting in on book discussions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting the exhibits and talking with vendors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of ARCs in my suitcase which I will bring back to my library to offer to excited young readers <strong>and<\/strong> to start work on our 2017 Mock Election programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning new ideas about creative programming in libraries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Networking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Participating in ALSC Board meetings and working to move the division forward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12354\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/alsc-board.jpg\" alt=\"ALSC Board of Directors Midwinter 2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/alsc-board.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/alsc-board-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALSC Board of Directors Midwinter 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting authors &amp; illustrators and hearing them speak about their work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The excitement of being among the hundreds and hundreds of people at the YMA Press Conference as the 2016 Awards were announced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12355\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12355 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/YMAs.png\" alt=\"YMAs\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/YMAs.png 640w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/YMAs-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of librarians excitedly listen to the announcement of winners at the 2016 YMAs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Seeing old friends and colleagues; meeting new friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning more about the importance and usefulness of ALSC&#8217;s newly revised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/alsccorecomps\">Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So much to process!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Boston! It&#8217;s been a great conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all packed and ready to catch a plane back home, tired but re-energized &amp; excited to begin to utilize some of the resources and information I&#8217;ve learned while at ALA Midwinter in Boston. Reflecting on the highlights of the conference, I think of: The information I learned at the ALSC Collection Management Discussion Group session and the decision to create a Facebook page for the group; this will surely be a good place for ongoing discussions. The announcement of Pat Scales as the 2016 recipient of ALSC&#8217;s Distinguished Service Award. A former middle school and high school librarian and a passionate advocate for children&#8217;s intellectual freedom, it was exciting to see her receive this well-deserved award. Sitting in on book discussions Visiting the exhibits and talking with vendors The number of ARCs in my suitcase which I will bring back to my library to offer to excited young readers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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":[877,144,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2016","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}