{"id":6741,"date":"2013-06-28T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2013-06-28T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:53:54","slug":"im-here-im-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/im-here-im-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m here!  I&#8217;m here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6742\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chicago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6742 \" title=\"View from Chicago River Walk\" alt=\"Chicago\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chicago-300x300.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Chicago River Walk (Casey O&#8217;Leary)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I arrived in Chicago yesterday for #ala2013, my very first ALA Annual Conference!\u00a0 Parking garage confusion and traffic aside, I&#8217;m so glad to be here and I&#8217;m ready to head over to McCormick Place to register and get things started!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a youth services librarian and a former teacher, and I try to keep up with the latest developments in library services and education.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll glean from five days at ALA, but the opportunities for learning seem endless.\u00a0 So what is it that I <strong>want<\/strong> from this experience?<\/p>\n<p>I want to be inspired.<\/p>\n<p>I want to have ideas to take back to my library and our patrons that inspire them to visit the library often.\u00a0 I want ideas to inspire my colleagues to encourage them to shine as they serve our patrons.\u00a0 I want to leave Chicago so full of excitement and passion for children&#8217;s librarianship that I make my co-workers want to throw up (not really).<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0can&#8217;t wait!\u00a0 C&#8217;mon, #ala2013!\u00a0 Inspire me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in Chicago yesterday for #ala2013, my very first ALA Annual Conference!\u00a0 Parking garage confusion and traffic aside, I&#8217;m so glad to be here and I&#8217;m ready to head over to McCormick Place to register and get things started! I&#8217;m a youth services librarian and a former teacher, and I try to keep up with the latest developments in library services and education.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll glean from five days at ALA, but the opportunities for learning seem endless.\u00a0 So what is it that I want from this experience? I want to be inspired. I want to have ideas to take back to my library and our patrons that inspire them to visit the library often.\u00a0 I want ideas to inspire my colleagues to encourage them to shine as they serve our patrons.\u00a0 I want to leave Chicago so full of excitement and passion for children&#8217;s librarianship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"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":[341,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2013","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","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\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}