{"id":33406,"date":"2025-06-27T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=33406"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:48:00","slug":"were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Here! #alaac25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After getting up at 4 am to catch a train, it feels good to take a breath with my name tag around my neck!  The convention hall is already bustling and I have 5 badges already attached and been lovingly attacked by members of the 2025 Newbery Crew and chatting with librarians from all over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you work alone or with a small crew it\u2019s hard to imagine alllll of the flavors and stripes of librarians- and i am taking this moment now just to take it all in. More later&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kelly Depin<\/strong> is a member of the 2025 Newbery committee and is looking forward to giving you a look at some of the invited events attached to the award winning authors.\u00a0 She has been a librarian for over 20 years and looks forward to being found someday as part of some unique children\u2019s or adult programming.<\/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>After getting up at 4 am to catch a train, it feels good to take a breath with my name tag around my neck! The convention hall is already bustling and I have 5 badges already attached and been lovingly attacked by members of the 2025 Newbery Crew and chatting with librarians from all over. When you work alone or with a small crew it\u2019s hard to imagine alllll of the flavors and stripes of librarians- and i am taking this moment now just to take it all in. More later&#8230; Kelly Depin is a member of the 2025 Newbery committee and is looking forward to giving you a look at some of the invited events attached to the award winning authors.\u00a0 She has been a librarian for over 20 years and looks forward to being found someday as part of some unique children\u2019s or adult programming. Please note that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"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":[2952,134,151,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2025","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}