{"id":16745,"date":"2017-10-24T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=16745"},"modified":"2017-10-22T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T22:49:09","slug":"at-the-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/at-the-last\/","title":{"rendered":"At the last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my last regular post for the ALSC blog: life and job and projects have taken over. I\u2019ve been doing this since 2008; it is time to move aside and let some fresh voices in.<\/p>\n<p>I have certainly enjoyed my time here as a regular blogger: it has given me a place to share ideas, programs,\u00a0 and experiences. Blogging for ALSC has helped me grow as a professional, has allowed me to look at what I do as a librarian and share it with others. We can learn so much from fellow librarians in person, at conferences, via blogs, and on Twitter. I absolutely intend to keep reading the ALSC blog, as it is a great place for news, ideas, issues, conference updates, association happenings, and of course, books.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the ALSC blog staff has been great: they make it easy to post and their enthusiasm and encouragement is top-notch. If you want to try your hand at writing, find the contact info on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a>.\u00a0 You need to be a member of ALSC to become a regular blogger (yet one more reason to join if you haven\u2019t).<\/p>\n<p>Not being fond of farewells, I\u2019d just like to say so-long for now. I\u2019m still around, I\u2019m still listening. I just need to exit this stage and move along. Adieu, my friends, and thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my last regular post for the ALSC blog: life and job and projects have taken over. I\u2019ve been doing this since 2008; it is time to move aside and let some fresh voices in. I have certainly enjoyed my time here as a regular blogger: it has given me a place to share ideas, programs,\u00a0 and experiences. Blogging for ALSC has helped me grow as a professional, has allowed me to look at what I do as a librarian and share it with others. We can learn so much from fellow librarians in person, at conferences, via blogs, and on Twitter. I absolutely intend to keep reading the ALSC blog, as it is a great place for news, ideas, issues, conference updates, association happenings, and of course, books. Working with the ALSC blog staff has been great: they make it easy to post and their enthusiasm and encouragement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"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":[66,36],"tags":[1369],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-angela-reynolds","category-slice-of-life","tag-goodbye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}