{"id":13406,"date":"2016-06-25T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:47:07","slug":"say-cheese-photo-ops-alaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/say-cheese-photo-ops-alaac\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Cheese! Photo Ops at #alaac16 !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the exhibit hall gets pumped up with librarians, library lovers, vendors, and book lovers- the energy changes! People are grabbing tons of ARCs and Galleys of books. Also loading up on free snacks from vendors&#8211; thank you to Baker and Taylor for the ice cream bar, and Penguin for the ice cream sandwich! (It&#8217;s hot, I treated myself!)<\/p>\n<p>Besides all the free stuff, there are lots of fun ways to engage with the vendors! This year, I found lots of ways to connect (beyond a sales pitch!)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At ABDO, Hillary Clinton and I stopped to chat libraries, politics, and our favorite books!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hillary-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hillary-1.jpg\" alt=\"The blogger with a Hillary Clinton cardboard standee.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, Rainbow Fish and my cousin and I reminisced on 25 years of fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rainbowfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rainbowfish.jpg\" alt=\"The blogger, her cousin, and &quot;Rainbow Fish.&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stopped by a super cool both promoting the upcoming book, &#8220;A Child of Books&#8221; by Sam Weston and Oliver Jeffers, and got to add one of the books that made me a reader as a child- &#8220;The Big Book of Tell me Why!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/child_of_books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/child_of_books.jpg\" alt=\"The blogger with a sign reading: &quot;The Big Book of Tell Me Why! made me a child of books.&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then, I got a chance to see myself to my full potential&#8211; as a pickle!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pickle_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pickle_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"The blogger as a pickle (behind a face-in-hole, captioned &quot;The Next Big Dill!&quot;).\" width=\"600\" height=\"1008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What photos ops have you had? What did I miss?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the exhibit hall gets pumped up with librarians, library lovers, vendors, and book lovers- the energy changes! People are grabbing tons of ARCs and Galleys of books. Also loading up on free snacks from vendors&#8211; thank you to Baker and Taylor for the ice cream bar, and Penguin for the ice cream sandwich! (It&#8217;s hot, I treated myself!) Besides all the free stuff, there are lots of fun ways to engage with the vendors! This year, I found lots of ways to connect (beyond a sales pitch!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"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":[859,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2016","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406","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\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}