{"id":5845,"date":"2013-01-25T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2013-01-25T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:35:26","slug":"looking-forward-to-the-ymas-alamw13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/looking-forward-to-the-ymas-alamw13\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward to the YMAs #alamw13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlights of the Midwinter Meeting, as many a children&#8217;s and teen librarian will tell you, is the Youth Media Awards. You don&#8217;t have to be here in Seattle to see it live&#8211;the event is available by <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnlive.webcastinc.com\/ala\/2013\/live\/\">live webcast<\/a>, too!<\/p>\n<p>Since arriving in Seattle, I&#8217;ve already enjoyed a number of YMA prediction discussions with friends and colleagues. We&#8217;ve talked about the merits and potential problem points of our favorite reads of 2012, and I am sure these conversations will continue throughout the weekend right up until the live announcement. It&#8217;s a conversation I am sure will come up at the ALSC Speed Networking event tonight! I can&#8217;t wait to hear what more of my colleagues think are the most award-worthy books of the year.<\/p>\n<p>What have been your favorite reads of 2012? What titles are you predicting will take home high accolades on Monday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlights of the Midwinter Meeting, as many a children&#8217;s and teen librarian will tell you, is the Youth Media Awards. You don&#8217;t have to be here in Seattle to see it live&#8211;the event is available by live webcast, too! Since arriving in Seattle, I&#8217;ve already enjoyed a number of YMA prediction discussions with friends and colleagues. We&#8217;ve talked about the merits and potential problem points of our favorite reads of 2012, and I am sure these conversations will continue throughout the weekend right up until the live announcement. It&#8217;s a conversation I am sure will come up at the ALSC Speed Networking event tonight! I can&#8217;t wait to hear what more of my colleagues think are the most award-worthy books of the year. What have been your favorite reads of 2012? What titles are you predicting will take home high accolades on Monday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"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":[317,264,151],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2013","category-blogger-amy-koester","category-live-blogging","tag-alamw13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}