{"id":15881,"date":"2017-06-13T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15881"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:20:12","slug":"asking-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/asking-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking for help"},"content":{"rendered":"

I planned a jampacked Summer Reading program on my own in my new library system. I really went for it, since we had gotten the ALSC Baker and Taylor grant\u00a0<\/a>, I’m an overachiever, and we were hiring another youth librarian.<\/p>\n

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However…we never found anyone who was qualified! It’s tough to hire in a rural area (we will be opening up the list soon, though, and I love this area so keep an eye out!). So here I am, the only Youth Librarian this side of a big mountain pass in my county, doing Summer Reading alone. But am I really alone?<\/p>\n

\"rockstar<\/p>\n

Who have you asked for help? What non-Youth Services people are your heroes this summer?<\/p>\n

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Lisa Nowlain is a Youth Librarian in the Nevada County Community Library system in California. She\u2019s also an artist type and you can see her work at lisanowlain.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I planned a jampacked Summer Reading program on my own in my new library system. I really went for it, since we had gotten the ALSC Baker and Taylor grant\u00a0, I’m an overachiever, and we were hiring another youth librarian. However…we never found anyone who was qualified! It’s tough to hire in a rural area (we will be opening up the list soon, though, and I love this area so keep an eye out!). So here I am, the only Youth Librarian this side of a big mountain pass in my county, doing Summer Reading alone. But am I really alone? Who have you asked for help? What non-Youth Services people are your heroes this summer?   Lisa Nowlain is a Youth Librarian in the Nevada County Community Library system in California. She\u2019s also an artist type and you can see her work at lisanowlain.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"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":[830,36,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-lisa-nowlain","category-slice-of-life","category-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}