{"id":21311,"date":"2019-06-24T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2019-06-24T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T16:35:28","slug":"news-you-can-use-alaac19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/news-you-can-use-alaac19\/","title":{"rendered":"News You Can Use #alaac19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of my favorite parts of ALA is hearing about all the work that has been going on in other divisions, round-tables, and groups. While it\u2019s easy to get caught up in all the great sessions that directly apply to children\u2019s librarianship, there\u2019s a lot of value in attending other sessions. We, as children\u2019s librarians, are not an island unto ourselves. By remaining aware of issues in other aspects of the library world we can be better advocates for our families we serve, effective team players in serving our library\u2019s overall mission, and better informed research-practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A good way to stick a toe in the water and branch out is by attending one of the many fantastic \u201cNews You Can Use\u201d sessions at Annual. These sessions \u201coffer the latest updates from experts on policy, research, statistics, technology, and more, based on new surveys, reports, legislation\/regulation, and projects\u201d from across ALA\u2019s divisions. This conference I attended two, and presented at one, and found something useful to bring back from all of them. Here\u2019s a few highlights with links to more information!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cImmigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons in Public Libraries: What We\u2019ve Learned, Where We\u2019re Heading<\/span><b>\u201d<\/b>\u00a0discussed best practices in working with these target populations and shared information on their recently released white paper.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newamericans.ala.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/newamericans.ala.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLiteracy for All: Resources for Serving Learners Across the Lifespan\u201d\u00a0 had some great discussion on common problems in serve all ages of learners with low literacy. The newly released toolkit on serving adult literacy learners still brings up many considerations for younger age groups as well.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/aboutala\/offices\/diversity\/literacy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/aboutala\/offices\/diversity\/literacy<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou Learned to Plan Programs Where?! Findings from NILPPA, ALA&#8217;s National Study of Library Public Programs\u201d<\/span>\u00a0shared preliminary research findings on library programming and the nine core competencies programming librarians (that includes us!) need. I&#8217;m especially looking forward to reading more about this!<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/tools\/programming\/research\/NILPPA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/tools\/programming\/research\/NILPPA<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts of ALA is hearing about all the work that has been going on in other divisions, round-tables, and groups. While it\u2019s easy to get caught up in all the great sessions that directly apply to children\u2019s librarianship, there\u2019s a lot of value in attending other sessions. We, as children\u2019s librarians, are not an island unto ourselves. By remaining aware of issues in other aspects of the library world we can be better advocates for our families we serve, effective team players in serving our library\u2019s overall mission, and better informed research-practitioners. &nbsp; A good way to stick a toe in the water and branch out is by attending one of the many fantastic \u201cNews You Can Use\u201d sessions at Annual. These sessions \u201coffer the latest updates from experts on policy, research, statistics, technology, and more, based on new surveys, reports, legislation\/regulation, and projects\u201d from across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"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":[1739,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2019","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311","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\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}