Nacogdoches Public Library<\/a>, Nacogdoches, Texas (Dollar General)<\/p>\nFremont Public Library, Mundelein, Illinois (Dollar General)<\/p>\n
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Then we all enjoyed cake and received a complimentary copy of Book Fiesta! <\/em>by Pat Morafrom publisher HarperCollins. After all professional development should be fun and this was a celebration!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the best opportunities for professional development comes at conference. I admit that after 35 years working in libraries–and attending at least that many ALA annual and midwinter conferences–I don’t attend many of the programs. Been there, done that. However it was inspiring and informative to participate in the celebration program for 15 years of El d\u00ed\u00ada de los ni\u00f1os\/El d\u00ed\u00ada de los libros. This celebration of bilingual literacy, born in 1996 when author\/advocate Pat Mora was inspired by a traditional Mexican celebration of\u00a0children, D\u00ed\u00ada’s\u00a0mission is to spread \u201cbookjoy\u201d\u009d every day by linking children from all cultures with books, and celebrating together on and around April 30. Cynthia Richey, ALSC Past-President, welcomed everyone to the program and talked about the place\u00a0D\u00ed\u00ada has in ALSC.\u00a0REFORMA President, Lucia Gonzalez, gave an inspiring overview of the birthing of\u00a0D\u00ed\u00ada and the maturation of this Latino “child” that was now celebrating her\u00a0Quincea\u00f1era (15th birthday)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[70,92,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeanette-larson","category-dia","category-professional-reading","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\u00a0libraries that had won Dollar General\u00a02011 Everyone Reads<\/a> @ your library Mini Grants<\/a>, the Mora Award, or were willing to share their successful programs.\u00a0\u00a0Table talks are especially exciting because they offer professional development to the participants but also to the sponsoring staff. The participating libraries were:<\/p>\n