{"id":33372,"date":"2025-06-28T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=33372"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:12:23","slug":"my-2025-ala-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/my-2025-ala-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Notes about My 2025 ALA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-friday-july-28\">Friday, July 28<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, I made to Philadelphia and the opening of the exhibit floor!  Seeing old friends and meeting new ones has been a great experience.  Tomorrow, Saturday, I will take pictures of the sessions and some of the authors on stage and other locations.  I love ALA and ALSC!  Looking forward to creating some Zines!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-saturday-july-29\">Saturday, July 29<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning!  Today I am looking forward to Zines, Book Buzz Theater and lots of authors and illustrators! Talk to you later!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Patty Gonzales Ramirez <\/strong>(she\/her\/hers) is the Retired Public Services Manager with the Dallas Public library and a beginner podcaster. She is most looking forward to the Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Banquet. As a 2025 Caldecott committee member she plans to reconnect some great friendships! Patty has always wanted to be a librarian and has been able to live that dream! Her favorite book has consistently been \u201c<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>\u201d by Harper Lee; it is very reminiscent of her childhood in the Jim Crow South. As a new and learning podcaster, she hopes to share her love of books and library experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Please note that as a guest post, the views expressed here do not represent the official position of ALA or ALSC.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If you are interested in submitting a guest post, please read and fill out our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/shrqPPooVdsxNlT5K\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guest Blogging Interest Form<\/a>. We would love to hear from you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 28 Well, I made to Philadelphia and the opening of the exhibit floor! Seeing old friends and meeting new ones has been a great experience. Tomorrow, Saturday, I will take pictures of the sessions and some of the authors on stage and other locations. I love ALA and ALSC! Looking forward to creating some Zines! Saturday, July 29 Good morning! Today I am looking forward to Zines, Book Buzz Theater and lots of authors and illustrators! Talk to you later! Patty Gonzales Ramirez (she\/her\/hers) is the Retired Public Services Manager with the Dallas Public library and a beginner podcaster. She is most looking forward to the Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Banquet. As a 2025 Caldecott committee member she plans to reconnect some great friendships! Patty has always wanted to be a librarian and has been able to live that dream! Her favorite book has consistently been \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"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":[2952,134,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2025","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372","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\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}