{"id":1462,"date":"2010-05-03T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2010-05-05T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T19:17:13","slug":"discover-d-c-the-great-blogdown-to-the-ala-annual-conference-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/discover-d-c-the-great-blogdown-to-the-ala-annual-conference-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover D.C. – The Great Blogdown to the ALA Annual Conference #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 6 more weeks to go!<\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. was first laid out by Pierre Charles L\u2019Enfant in 1791.\u00a0 L\u2019Enfant\u2019s plan was never fully recognized after an argument broke out between him and Andrew Ellicott, who had been conducting the survey of the District\u2019s boundaries along with Benjamin Banneker.\u00a0 Ellicott\u2019s revised version of L\u2019Enfant\u2019s plan is the basis for how Washington is presently laid out.\u00a0 When traveling around town, it will be hard to get lost if you keep these few things in mind:<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong>\u00a0The Lettered Streets (A-W) run east\/west (parallel to the Mall).\u00a0 A Street is closest to the Mall with the letters following alphabetically as you work north or south of the Mall.<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0B Street is now Constitution Avenue north of the Mall and Independence Avenue south of the Mall<\/p>\n

b) There is no J Street<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0I Street is sometimes referred to as Eye Street to avoid confusion with other letters or numbers.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0A Quadrant designation (NW, NE, SW, SE) follows the name of each street to signal what part of the city it\u2019s in.<\/p>\n

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2)<\/strong>\u00a0 The numbered streets run north\/south (perpendicular to the Mall).\u00a0<\/p>\n

a)\u00a01st<\/sup> Street is the nearest north\/south street to the Capitol.\u00a0 2nd<\/sup>, 3rd<\/sup>, etc. are further east\/west of the Capitol.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0A Quadrant designation (NW, NE, SW, SE) follows the name of each street to signal what part of the city it\u2019s in.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> Streets named for states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Connecticut, etc.) run diagonally through lettered and\/or numbered streets.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Look for the blue directional signs that point the way to nearby Metro Stations and other important landmarks.<\/p>\n

Weather<\/span>
\nBe prepared for heat!\u00a0 The average temperature in D.C. during the last week of June is around 86\u00b0 F.\u00a0 However, those who have been to other ALA Annual Conferences know that the week of the conference tends to be the hottest and most humid of the year in the host city.\u00a0 (We did get very lucky in Chicago last year though.)\u00a0 When the ALA Annual Conference was last held in D.C. back in 2007, the temperatures held mainly in the low to mid 80s with moderate humidity but we did hit the low 90s with high humidity before the conference ended.\u00a0 Bring a good pair of walking shoes, some sunscreen, a hat, and an umbrella just to be safe.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Be sure to visit our wiki page at\u00a0<\/p>\n

http:\/\/wikis.ala.org\/alsc\/index.php\/ALSC_%40_ALA_2010_Annual_Conference_in_the_Nation%27s_Capital<\/a>\u00a0for much more on D.C. and the Annual Conference.<\/p>\n

– Chris\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0\u00a0 It may be hot outside but one never knows how cold the meeting rooms at the convention center and various hotels will be.\u00a0 Bring your sweater with you if you have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 6 more weeks to go! Washington, D.C. was first laid out by Pierre Charles L\u2019Enfant in 1791.\u00a0 L\u2019Enfant\u2019s plan was never fully recognized after an argument broke out between him and Andrew Ellicott, who had been conducting the survey of the District\u2019s boundaries along with Benjamin Banneker.\u00a0 Ellicott\u2019s revised version of L\u2019Enfant\u2019s plan is the basis for how Washington is presently laid out.\u00a0 When traveling around town, it will be hard to get lost if you keep these few things in mind: 1)\u00a0The Lettered Streets (A-W) run east\/west (parallel to the Mall).\u00a0 A Street is closest to the Mall with the letters following alphabetically as you work north or south of the Mall. a)\u00a0B Street is now Constitution Avenue north of the Mall and Independence Avenue south of the Mall b) There is no J Street c)\u00a0I Street is sometimes referred to as Eye Street to avoid confusion with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"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":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}