{"id":5787,"date":"2013-01-20T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2013-01-20T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T18:01:20","slug":"ala-midwinter-panel-focuses-on-diversity-in-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/ala-midwinter-panel-focuses-on-diversity-in-childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA Midwinter Panel Focuses on Diversity in Children\u2019s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5788\" alt=\"CBC Diversity Badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diversity-committee-badge-150.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>CBC Diversity, a committee-run initiative of the <a title=\"Children's Book Council\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcbooks.org\/\">Children\u2019s Book Council<\/a>, will be making an appearance at ALA Midwinter 2013. The informational session will provide details about the initiative and all of the resources it offers librarians, one being the constantly updated <a title=\"CBC Diversity Goodreads Bookshelf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/7947376-cbc-diversity\">CBC Diversity Goodreads Bookshelf<\/a> which utilizes the bookshelf tags to organize the collection based on the different types of diversity that can be found in children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will the session showcase valuable information about the initiative and how the publishing industry is handling the current state of diversity in children&#8217;s books but, it will also allow the librarian-filled audience to ask questions and give advice to the representatives about the future of CBC Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a title=\"CBC Diversity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcdiversity.com\/\">CBC Diversity blog<\/a> for more information about the initiative (and to sneak a peek at the other valuable resources before the panel) and check out the CBC Diversity ALA Midwinter flyer below for all of the details.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5789\" alt=\"CBC Diversity at Midwinter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CBC-Diversity-ALA-Flyer-790x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CBC-Diversity-ALA-Flyer-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CBC-Diversity-ALA-Flyer-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CBC-Diversity-ALA-Flyer.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***************************************************<\/p>\n<p><em>Our guest blog post today is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcbooks.org\/\">Children&#8217;s Book Council<\/a>. The Children\u2019s Book Council is the national nonprofit trade association of children\u2019s book publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u2019d like to write a guest post for the ALSC Blog, please contact Mary Voors, ALSC Blog manager, at <a href=\"mailto:alscblog@gmail.com\">alscblog@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Diversity, a committee-run initiative of the Children\u2019s Book Council, will be making an appearance at ALA Midwinter 2013. The informational session will provide details about the initiative and all of the resources it offers librarians, one being the constantly updated CBC Diversity Goodreads Bookshelf which utilizes the bookshelf tags to organize the collection based on the different types of diversity that can be found in children\u2019s literature. Not only will the session showcase valuable information about the initiative and how the publishing industry is handling the current state of diversity in children&#8217;s books but, it will also allow the librarian-filled audience to ask questions and give advice to the representatives about the future of CBC Diversity. Visit the CBC Diversity blog for more information about the initiative (and to sneak a peek at the other valuable resources before the panel) and check out the CBC Diversity ALA Midwinter flyer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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":[317,61,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2013","category-diversity","category-guest-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}