{"id":24697,"date":"2021-01-26T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=24697"},"modified":"2021-01-26T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:30:49","slug":"alsc-membership-committee-at-alamw21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/alsc-membership-committee-at-alamw21\/","title":{"rendered":"ALSC Membership Committee at #alamw21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With every conference, I like to give a shout out to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/coms\/pg4orgsupport\/als-mb\" target=\"_blank\">ALSC\u2019s Membership Committee<\/a>. From planning informal gatherings to coordinating and participating in other engagement opportunities, this committee truly blows me away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Midwinter, the committee planned a Pre-YMA ALSC Mixer, which you can read about in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/alsc-mixer-at-alamw21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abby\u2019s blog post<\/a>. Amy Seto Forrester and Allison Knight from the committee also participated in a virtual student networking session in the \u201cLibrarian Lounge\u201d. Amy and Allison offered their insight on children\u2019s services and gave advice to students pursuing their MLIS degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So much of the welcoming events and initiatives come from the creative minds of those on the Membership Committee and I am grateful to experience their passion for youth services and ALSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are a member interested in volunteering for an ALSC process (non-book award) committee, please fill out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/coms\/volunteer\">volunteer form<\/a> as ALSC Vice-President, Lucia Gonzalez, will be making appointments soon for these committees! If you have any questions about volunteering or filling out the form, you can reach out to me or, of course, our Membership Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture-650x640.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Serrano photo\" class=\"wp-image-23240\" width=\"131\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture-650x640.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture-508x500.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture-91x90.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESpicture.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Elizabeth Serrano (a.k.a. Elly) is ALSC\u2019s Membership and Marketing Specialist. She can be reached at eserrano@ala.org. Please feel free to reach out to her to say hello, ask your ALSC questions, or to talk about Disney\u2019s latest movie, Soul<\/em>\u00a0<em>(she loved it, of course).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every conference, I like to give a shout out to ALSC\u2019s Membership Committee. From planning informal gatherings to coordinating and participating in other engagement opportunities, this committee truly blows me away. For Midwinter, the committee planned a Pre-YMA ALSC Mixer, which you can read about in Abby\u2019s blog post. Amy Seto Forrester and Allison Knight from the committee also participated in a virtual student networking session in the \u201cLibrarian Lounge\u201d. Amy and Allison offered their insight on children\u2019s services and gave advice to students pursuing their MLIS degrees. So much of the welcoming events and initiatives come from the creative minds of those on the Membership Committee and I am grateful to experience their passion for youth services and ALSC. If you are a member interested in volunteering for an ALSC process (non-book award) committee, please fill out a volunteer form as ALSC Vice-President, Lucia Gonzalez, will be making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[2130,1260,151],"tags":[470,903],"class_list":["post-24697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-virtual-midwinter-2021","category-blogger-elizabeth-serrano","category-live-blogging","tag-membership","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24697","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}