{"id":18483,"date":"2018-06-22T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2018-06-22T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:18:56","slug":"alaac18-lets-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/alaac18-lets-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"#alaac18 Let\u2019s Do This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registration, check. Waiting in the surprisingly fast line for the Opening General Session, check. Great seat, check!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so excited for this year\u2019s featured speakers and moderator, Carla Hayden, Trombone Shorty and Michelle Obama! Despite it being the length of a football field, the line moved quickly and there were plenty of things to look at while in the queue. I loved seeing the multilingual \u201cWelcome\u201d poster displayed at the ALA store and the amazing Biblioquilts that were donated for the ALA Silent Auction. I gave a loud cheer when the large screens projected the upcoming addition of the American Indian Library Association, the Association of Jewish Libraries and the Asian Pacific American Library Association awards to the 2019 Youth Media Awards.<\/p>\n<p>So much positivity and inclusivity to kick off #alaac18 and the Opening General Session hasn\u2019t even started yet!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3C3DE30D-2601-4450-AA55-382863111C54-650x488.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3C3DE30D-2601-4450-AA55-382863111C54-650x488.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3C3DE30D-2601-4450-AA55-382863111C54-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3C3DE30D-2601-4450-AA55-382863111C54-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3C3DE30D-2601-4450-AA55-382863111C54-667x500.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3C3DE30D-2601-4450-AA55-382863111C54-120x90.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C-650x361.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C-650x361.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C-768x427.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C-899x500.jpeg 899w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C-160x90.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B348EFA0-9C58-424D-8303-EC925819AD0C.jpeg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration, check. Waiting in the surprisingly fast line for the Opening General Session, check. Great seat, check! I\u2019m so excited for this year\u2019s featured speakers and moderator, Carla Hayden, Trombone Shorty and Michelle Obama! Despite it being the length of a football field, the line moved quickly and there were plenty of things to look at while in the queue. I loved seeing the multilingual \u201cWelcome\u201d poster displayed at the ALA store and the amazing Biblioquilts that were donated for the ALA Silent Auction. I gave a loud cheer when the large screens projected the upcoming addition of the American Indian Library Association, the Association of Jewish Libraries and the Asian Pacific American Library Association awards to the 2019 Youth Media Awards. So much positivity and inclusivity to kick off #alaac18 and the Opening General Session hasn\u2019t even started yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"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":[1505,134,151,1],"tags":[1527],"class_list":["post-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2018","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging","category-uncategorized","tag-alaac18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","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\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}