{"id":6744,"date":"2013-06-28T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2013-06-28T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:30:56","slug":"ala2013-the-great-conversation-and-idea-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/ala2013-the-great-conversation-and-idea-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"#ala2013: The great conversation and idea exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was my first full day here in Chicago for #ala2013, and already the ideas are flying. I&#8217;ve indulged in several formal and informal meetings and conversations with colleagues from across the continent, and already I&#8217;ve got lots to think about. Some snippets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px\">Ways of increasing student usage of the public library &#8212; Why not work with the school district to get &#8220;public library card&#8221; added to every classroom&#8217;s supplies list? (How have I not heard of this before?!? Simple. Brilliant.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The reasonable extent of the children&#8217;s librarian&#8217;s knowledge of child development &#8212; At what point, if at all, do we highly-trained professionals have a place chiming in about the developmental milestones we observe (or fail to see) in the children who visit our programs and use our services?<\/li>\n<li>Non-traditional training for children&#8217;s librarians &#8212; Do you know of any libraries that encourage their children&#8217;s librarians to take an introductory-level training in sign language? Speech pathology? Children&#8217;s health and nutrition? What non-obvious trainings might increase the benefits we bring to our communities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are just a few of the ideas already bouncing around in my brain. I can tell you one thing for certain: at a conference like this, which conversations literally on every street corner, conference room, and hotel elevator, the idea exchange has only just begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was my first full day here in Chicago for #ala2013, and already the ideas are flying. I&#8217;ve indulged in several formal and informal meetings and conversations with colleagues from across the continent, and already I&#8217;ve got lots to think about. Some snippets: Ways of increasing student usage of the public library &#8212; Why not work with the school district to get &#8220;public library card&#8221; added to every classroom&#8217;s supplies list? (How have I not heard of this before?!? Simple. Brilliant.) The reasonable extent of the children&#8217;s librarian&#8217;s knowledge of child development &#8212; At what point, if at all, do we highly-trained professionals have a place chiming in about the developmental milestones we observe (or fail to see) in the children who visit our programs and use our services? Non-traditional training for children&#8217;s librarians &#8212; Do you know of any libraries that encourage their children&#8217;s librarians to take an introductory-level&#8230;<\/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":[341,264,151],"tags":[391],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2013","category-blogger-amy-koester","category-live-blogging","tag-ala2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","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=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}