{"id":19259,"date":"2018-09-27T22:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=19259"},"modified":"2018-09-28T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:35:12","slug":"alsc18-cincinnati-so-much-to-see-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/alsc18-cincinnati-so-much-to-see-and-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"#alsc18 Cincinnati &#8211; So Much to See and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Cincinnati offers a lot of cool and educational sites for those who visit. \u00a0If you weren&#8217;t able to come to ALSC Institute there are still lots of reason to come visit and things to experience. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was lucky to attend the Youth Connections Reception at the <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomcenter.org\/\">National Underground Railroad Freedom Center<\/a> on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 Walking the exhibits on the third floor were intense, powerful, and also heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19278\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19278 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3-650x486.png\" alt=\"American's History of Slavery\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3-650x486.png 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3-668x500.png 668w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3-120x90.png 120w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture3.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American&#8217;s History of Slavery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19277\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19277 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4-487x650.png\" alt=\"Slavery in the World Today\" width=\"487\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4-487x650.png 487w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4-768x1025.png 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4-375x500.png 375w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4-67x90.png 67w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture4.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slavery in the World Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The gathering took place in the Pavilion of Cooperation which was aptly named as the night kicked off with some local organization speaking about their work with children and families.<\/p>\n<p>Two organization that I found especially interesting were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upspring.org\/\">UpSpring<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordplaycincy.org\/\">WordPlay<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whether you are from Cincinnati or not, take a look at these organizations and use them as a spark to reach out to those in your community who could be great library partners.<\/p>\n<p>Just around the corner from the Freedom Center is the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/mercantilelibrary.com\/\">Mercantile Library<\/a>.\u00a0 This library has been around for over 170 years.\u00a0 The space is beautiful and as one ALSC Institute attendee was overheard saying &#8220;It&#8217;s very Harry Potterish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19284\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1186-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"Trivia Crowd\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1186-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1186-518x500.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1186-93x90.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1186.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trivia Crowd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19286\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6-225x300.png\" alt=\"Mercantile Library\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6-768x1025.png 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6-487x650.png 487w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6-375x500.png 375w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6-67x90.png 67w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Picture6.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercantile Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was the site for ALSC Trivia Hour and about 150 Children&#8217;s Librarians, including myself, gave it a go at answering 50 Children&#8217;s Literature trivia questions.\u00a0 While my team didn&#8217;t win, we got a respectable 33 questions correct!<\/p>\n<p>Near to both are the riverwalk, ferris wheel, and carousal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19285\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1174.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by Kim Alberts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m from Northeast Ohio &#8211; just outside Cleveland and hadn&#8217;t been to Cincinnati since I was a kid.\u00a0 It was great to discover these treasures within just a couple block radius!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15616\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15616 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mary-bio-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mary's Bio Photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos provided by blogger unless otherwise noted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Schreiber is the Youth Collection Development Specialist for Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH and co-chairs the ALSC Public Awareness Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This post addresses the following ALSC Core Competency: VII. Professionalism and Professional Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Cincinnati offers a lot of cool and educational sites for those who visit. \u00a0If you weren&#8217;t able to come to ALSC Institute there are still lots of reason to come visit and things to experience. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":19265,"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":[1604,134,1459,151,1613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competencies-for-librarians-serving-children-in-public-libraries","category-guest-blogger","category-institute-2018-conferencesmeetingsinstitutes","category-live-blogging","category-professionalism-and-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19259","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}