{"id":15686,"date":"2017-05-15T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2017-05-14T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:25:02","slug":"advocacy-legislation-co-chairs-go-washington-nlld17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/advocacy-legislation-co-chairs-go-washington-nlld17\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy &#038; Legislation Co-Chairs Go To Washington &#8211; #NLLD17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings ALSC community! It&#8217;s Africa and Kendra, co-chairs of the Advocacy and Legislation Committee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15687\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15687 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Africa-Kendra-DC-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Africa-Kendra-DC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Africa-Kendra-DC-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Africa-Kendra-DC.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Africa &amp; Kendra, Advocacy and Legislation Committee Co-Chairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two weeks ago we participated in our first National Library Legislative Day in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Advocacy and Legislation Committee. In addition to meeting fellow committee member, Susan Kusel, and the ALSC leadership team (Aimee Strittmatter, Nina Lindsay, and Andrew Medlar), we met amazing library advocates from across the U.S. whom we&#8217;ll profile in\u00a0future blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than write a traditional blog post about our experience, we recorded a conversation in which we recap our time in D.C. and offer takeaways from the experience. Have a listen and, if you also attended <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23nlld17&amp;src=typd\">#NLLD17<\/a>, share your takeaways in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, ALSC!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-782677395\/nlld17-recap-alsc-advocacy-legislation-committee\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-782677395\/nlld17-recap-alsc-advocacy-legislation-committee<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15688\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15688 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AL-Committee-NLLD17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AL-Committee-NLLD17-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AL-Committee-NLLD17-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AL-Committee-NLLD17.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan, Africa, and Kendra of the Advocacy and Legislation Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15689\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15689 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Team-ALSC-NLLD17-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Team-ALSC-NLLD17-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Team-ALSC-NLLD17-160x86.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Team-ALSC-NLLD17.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew, Nina, Africa, Kendra, and Aimee #nlld17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Want to learn more about National Library Legislative Day priority issues? Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/sites\/ala.org.advocacy\/files\/content\/IssueBriefs.Final17.pdf\">issue briefs<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>Library advocacy doesn&#8217;t stop with #NLLD17. Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/everyday-advocacy\/virtual-library-legislative-day\">these resources<\/a> from Everyday Advocacy to continue advocating for library resources and funding.<\/p>\n<p>*************<\/p>\n<p>Africa Hands (@africahands) and Kendra Jones (@klmpeace) co-chair the ALSC Advocacy and Legislation Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings ALSC community! It&#8217;s Africa and Kendra, co-chairs of the Advocacy and Legislation Committee. Two weeks ago we participated in our first National Library Legislative Day in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Advocacy and Legislation Committee. In addition to meeting fellow committee member, Susan Kusel, and the ALSC leadership team (Aimee Strittmatter, Nina Lindsay, and Andrew Medlar), we met amazing library advocates from across the U.S. whom we&#8217;ll profile in\u00a0future blog posts. Rather than write a traditional blog post about our experience, we recorded a conversation in which we recap our time in D.C. and offer takeaways from the experience. Have a listen and, if you also attended #NLLD17, share your takeaways in the comments. Thanks, ALSC! Want to learn more about National Library Legislative Day priority issues? Check out the issue briefs online. Library advocacy doesn&#8217;t stop with #NLLD17. Use these resources from Everyday Advocacy to continue advocating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[270,58],"tags":[253,564,1245],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-advocacy-and-legislation-committee","category-legislative-issues","tag-advocacy","tag-everyday-advocacy","tag-nlld17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}