Discussions about Printz contenders in the shuttle from the airport.<\/p>\n
Debates about Newbery possibilities over lunch. Will our hearts be broken if Okay for Now<\/em>\u00a0doesn’t win?<\/p>\n I’m in Dallas and I’m with my people. This, folks. This is what Conference is all about, what ALA membership is all about. The connections I’ve made at last year’s conferences have blossomed into great friendships and I’m so happy to be back here again.<\/p>\n — Abby Johnson, Children’s Manager Discussions about Printz contenders in the shuttle from the airport. Debates about Newbery possibilities over lunch. Will our hearts be broken if Okay for Now\u00a0doesn’t win? I’m in Dallas and I’m with my people. This, folks. This is what Conference is all about, what ALA membership is all about. The connections I’ve made at last year’s conferences have blossomed into great friendships and I’m so happy to be back here again. — Abby Johnson, Children’s Manager New Albany-Floyd County Public Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"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":[187,101,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2012","category-alsc-blogger-abby-johnson","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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