{"id":14048,"date":"2016-09-18T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:29:47","slug":"award-amazing-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/award-amazing-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"This Award is An Amazing Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have less than two weeks to apply for the opportunity of a lifetime!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Saturday, October 1, 2016<\/strong>, applications will close for the 2017\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/profawards\/penguinyoungreadersgroupaward\">Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award<\/a>. This award, made possible by an annual gift from Penguin Young Readers Group and Random House Children&#8217;s Books, provides a $600 stipend to up to four children&#8217;s librarians to attend their first ALA Annual Conference.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all!<\/p>\n<p>Recipients will also be treated to <strong>a free ticket<\/strong> to attend the 2017 Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder banquet courtesy of Penguin Random House Young Readers Group. That&#8217;s right! So let&#8217;s sum this up. If you are one of the four lucky applicants chosen you win:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$600 stipend for the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in sunny Chicago<\/li>\n<li>the recognition of being an ALSC Professional Award winner<\/li>\n<li>one ticket to the 2017 Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder banquet<\/li>\n<li>your name read aloud at the 2017 ALSC Membership Meeting<\/li>\n<li>the admiration and respect of your peers and colleagues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/profawards\/penguinyoungreadersgroupaward\">Learn more about this award and apply today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have less than two weeks to apply for the opportunity of a lifetime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":14049,"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":[913,186,7,16],"tags":[974,783,1074],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ala-annual-2017","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-call-to-action","category-professional-reading","tag-2017-ala-annual-conference","tag-alsc-professional-awards","tag-newbery-caldecott-wilder-banquet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}