{"id":20214,"date":"2019-01-26T01:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=20214"},"modified":"2019-01-26T01:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T06:49:11","slug":"alamw19-alsc-dinner-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/alamw19-alsc-dinner-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"#alamw19 ALSC Dinner with Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, jet lag is definitely a thing, and it\u2019s rearing its ugly head right now. Before I fall into bed, though, I just had to write a little about the ALSC Membership Dinner which I attended tonight. ALSC\u2019s Membership Committee (particularly Jennifer Knight and Ashley Waring) deserve a big round of applause, since they worked very hard to organize this awesome event. Basically, we organized small dinners throughout town where new and seasoned ALSC members could spend quality time together before the conference kicked into high gear. Simple, but brilliant! We had a great turnout for dinners, and it was so nice to meet some new friends.<\/p>\n<p>My group ate at Stateside, a fantastic Asian fusion restaurant not far from the conference center. Sooooo yummy! We shared a bunch of fascinating and delicious dishes (so exciting, because then we didn\u2019t have to choose just one!), including everything from crispy duck rolls to cheesecake with lychee snow. Lychee snow? We didn\u2019t know what it was, either! I don\u2019t think I have this quite right, but it\u2019s frozen lychee juice that\u2019s aerated so that it\u2019s fluffy and icy and delicious and most intriguing. This was a real learning experience on its own!<\/p>\n<p>At my table, not only was I able to connect with new people, but I learned a lot, too. Here are some of the things that we discussed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best practices for reaching out to kids in schools. Lots of kids don\u2019t have access to the library, so we have to bring the library to them. It\u2019s so nice if you have children\u2019s librarians who can make regular visits!<\/li>\n<li>How can we make the most of Summer Reading visits? Is it better to talk about all the things that the library can offer, or should we focus on the Summer Reading Program itself? Assemblies vs. classroom visits?<\/li>\n<li>Who is going to what tomorrow? Sounds like there\u2019s a lot of interest in diversity, racial equity, and intellectual freedom. Also, Emilio Estevez\u2019s movie!<\/li>\n<li>Is lychee snow worth the effort? It\u2019s delicious, and yet, so complicated!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20252\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dinner-at-Stateside-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"dinner with friends at Stateside\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dinner-at-Stateside-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dinner-at-Stateside-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dinner-at-Stateside-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dinner-at-Stateside-667x500.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dinner-at-Stateside-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great night with new friends at Stateside!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, jet lag is definitely a thing, and it\u2019s rearing its ugly head right now. Before I fall into bed, though, I just had to write a little about the ALSC Membership Dinner which I attended tonight. ALSC\u2019s Membership Committee (particularly Jennifer Knight and Ashley Waring) deserve a big round of applause, since they worked very hard to organize this awesome event. Basically, we organized small dinners throughout town where new and seasoned ALSC members could spend quality time together before the conference kicked into high gear. Simple, but brilliant! We had a great turnout for dinners, and it was so nice to meet some new friends. My group ate at Stateside, a fantastic Asian fusion restaurant not far from the conference center. Sooooo yummy! We shared a bunch of fascinating and delicious dishes (so exciting, because then we didn\u2019t have to choose just one!), including everything from crispy duck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"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":[1659,1479,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2019","category-blogger-alsc-membership-committee","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20214","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}