{"id":22507,"date":"2020-01-25T06:18:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=22507"},"modified":"2020-01-25T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:30:48","slug":"alamw20-day-1-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/alamw20-day-1-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#ALAmw20 – Day 1 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here I am – at another ALA Midwinter conference!<\/p>\n

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20 years of Duck!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am so excited to be here – confession…Midwinter is one of my favorites. Mostly because of the Youth Media Awards<\/a> announcement on Monday. I have noticed a pattern for myself on the first day of any national conference, however. At some point (usually during the Exhibit Hall opening), I hit a wall. I cannot really have an intelligent conversation with anyone and I find myself just sort of wandering around, usually stuck in some sort of librarian book-frenzy traffic. Do you feel this way too?<\/p>\n

The first day of anything is hard, so if you are a first time attendee of this conference, make sure you take time to recharge and get away from the hoards of people and vendors. Self-care, especially during cold and flu season, is very important. Go to your room. Take a nap. Eat an orange. Do this everyday of conference, not just the first day, by the way.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for the Exhibit Hall to open.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why do I continue to keep going until I hit this wall? Because it is so worth it – the excitement of everyone waiting for the Exhibit Hall to open is enough to perk you up a little. It is kind of fun to be stuck with a bunch of librarians who are running to a particular booth to see if a much anticipated ARC will be available. I am certain the opening speaker was wonderful, but my travel plans did not give me time to attend that first session. After a full day of travel and the Exhibit Hall, I was ready to grab some sushi and go to bed!<\/p>\n

And now I am looking forward to (and ready for) a full Day 2!<\/p>\n

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Valerie Byrd Fort is an Instructor at the University of South Carolina for the School of Library & Information Science. She teaches courses related to children’s materials and school libraries.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here I am – at another ALA Midwinter conference! I am so excited to be here – confession…Midwinter is one of my favorites. Mostly because of the Youth Media Awards announcement on Monday. I have noticed a pattern for myself on the first day of any national conference, however. At some point (usually during the Exhibit Hall opening), I hit a wall. I cannot really have an intelligent conversation with anyone and I find myself just sort of wandering around, usually stuck in some sort of librarian book-frenzy traffic. Do you feel this way too? The first day of anything is hard, so if you are a first time attendee of this conference, make sure you take time to recharge and get away from the hoards of people and vendors. Self-care, especially during cold and flu season, is very important. Go to your room. Take a nap. Eat an orange….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"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":[1885,134,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2020","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507","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\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}