{"id":1965,"date":"2011-01-18T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2011-01-18T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:44:15","slug":"authors-speak-out-for-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/authors-speak-out-for-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors Speak Out for Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ALA President Roberta Stevens\u2019 initiative Our Authors, Our Advocates: Authors Speak Out for Libraries, ALA\u2019s Public Information Office has developed the following website to be used a resource for library advocates: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourauthorsouradvocates.org\/\">http:\/\/www.ourauthorsouradvocates.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The site features a number of videos from selected authors asking for support for libraries. Below is a sample piece from five-time Coretta Scott King award winner Sharon Draper. Please take a look at the videos on the site and help us promote libraries through these storytellers.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kvbxUFCaBGg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kvbxUFCaBGg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ALA President Roberta Stevens\u2019 initiative Our Authors, Our Advocates: Authors Speak Out for Libraries, ALA\u2019s Public Information Office has developed the following website to be used a resource for library advocates: http:\/\/www.ourauthorsouradvocates.org\/ The site features a number of videos from selected authors asking for support for libraries. Below is a sample piece from five-time Coretta Scott King award winner Sharon Draper. Please take a look at the videos on the site and help us promote libraries through these storytellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priority-group-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}