{"id":35626,"date":"2026-04-02T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=35626"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:13:14","slug":"amazing-my-first-day-at-pla2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/amazing-my-first-day-at-pla2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing! My first day at #PLA2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a great first day at #PLA2026! Some of the options I explored today included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Taking a bit of a break in the exhibits, and also catching my breath after traversing a good portion of the VERY LARGE Space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <em>Opening Session with Bryan Stevenson<\/em>&#8216;s was so inspiring and thought-provoking. It made me want to \u2019feel uncomfortable!\u2019 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Beyond Drag Storytime<\/em>, presented by Jayne Waltres, a Librarian at Anne Arundel County Public Library was also amazing. If you can\u2019t get support at your library, try at a community partner\u2019s location. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Intentional Early Literacy Outreach to Hispanohablantes<\/em> was incredible and shared great ideas for starting a regular Storytime at a remote location. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel as if my brain is bursting as it is! And the day is not over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anne Friederichs<\/strong> (she\/her\/hers) is a Children\u2019s Librarian specializing in preschool programming, and collections for birth through 3<sup>rd<\/sup> graders at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.dakota.mn.us\/library\">Dakota County Wescott Library<\/a> in Eagan, MN. Anne says that she has always left each PLA Conference with an overload of information, and she is looking forward to that again!\u00a0 She is also anticipating learning from and gleaning great insight from colleagues across the nation!\u00a0Anne says she grew up in a family of teachers.\u00a0 She knew the value of books and information, yet never thought of being a librarian!\u00a0 If she could reread a book for the first time, it would probably be <em>Charlotte\u2019s Web<\/em> by E.B. White.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/shrqPPooVdsxNlT5K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guest Blogging Interest Form<\/a>. We would love to hear from you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great first day at #PLA2026! Some of the options I explored today included:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"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":[134,151,3151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging","category-pla-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}