{"id":499,"date":"2008-07-05T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T01:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2009-08-02T06:49:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:49:46","slug":"back-from-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/back-from-anaheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I squirted my hands with Purel every five minutes and downed mega doses of Vitamin C, I still managed to catch a cold on the flight home from Anaheim.  I&#8217;m very grateful that I didn&#8217;t get sick until <em>after<\/em> the Conference.  I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to miss a thing.<\/p>\n<p>The AASL (American Association of School Librarians) President&#8217;s Program was one of the most thought- provoking sessions that I attended.  Author\/librarian Susan Patron kicked off an emotional discussion on intellectual freedom with co-panelists David Levithan, Catherine Beyers, and Cassandra Barnett. It was good to be reminded that circulation statistics are not everything&#8211;that books are meant to be found.<\/p>\n<p>The most entertaining program I attended was ALSC&#8217;s Creating Readers Theatre at your Library with Top Quality Children&#8217;s Books.  It turns out that authors Shannon Hale, Linda Sue Park, M.T. Anderson, and Eric Rohmann can act almost as well as they can write!<\/p>\n<p>I had mixed feelings about the PLA President&#8217;s Program featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.  I may have misunderstood, but I think Jamie Lee Curtis said that rap music is bad for children.  (If so, she obviously hasn&#8217;t listened to Skee-Lo&#8217;s rendition of The Tale of Mr. Morton.)  She won me over, though, when she read us her latest book, <em>Big Words for Little People.<\/em>  She really is a good writer and a great performer.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Hickman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I squirted my hands with Purel every five minutes and downed mega doses of Vitamin C, I still managed to catch a cold on the flight home from Anaheim. I&#8217;m very grateful that I didn&#8217;t get sick until after the Conference. I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to miss a thing. The AASL (American Association of School Librarians) President&#8217;s Program was one of the most thought- provoking sessions that I attended. Author\/librarian Susan Patron kicked off an emotional discussion on intellectual freedom with co-panelists David Levithan, Catherine Beyers, and Cassandra Barnett. It was good to be reminded that circulation statistics are not everything&#8211;that books are meant to be found. The most entertaining program I attended was ALSC&#8217;s Creating Readers Theatre at your Library with Top Quality Children&#8217;s Books. It turns out that authors Shannon Hale, Linda Sue Park, M.T. Anderson, and Eric Rohmann can act almost as well as they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferencesmeetingsinstitutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}