On the 12 days of Christmas, my library system gave to me:<\/i><\/p>\n
One new library catalog<\/p>\n
Two busy self-check-outs<\/p>\n
Three new children\u2019s tables<\/p>\n
Four prizes for summer reading<\/p>\n
Five book displays<\/p>\n
Six wonderful weekly story times<\/p>\n
Seven freshly painted walls<\/p>\n
Eight interesting book series<\/p>\n
Nine outreach events<\/p>\n
Ten chairs in our conference room<\/p>\n
Eleven special preschool programs<\/p>\n
And<\/p>\n
Twelve happy children (and many, many more!)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n While some of these numbers are only a brief representation of the total figure, other quantities are right on target.\u00a0 Regardless of the number, all of these examples are just some of the gifts I received while working at our community branch library in 2013.<\/p>\n The highlight, of course, was sharing time with the people, both customers and staff members, I have been blessed to work with this year.<\/p>\n What has been the greatest gift you have received at work this year? What upcoming opportunity are you most anticipating in 2014? Please share in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the 12 days of Christmas, my library system gave to me: One new library catalog Two busy self-check-outs Three new children\u2019s tables Four prizes for summer reading Five book displays Six wonderful weekly story times Seven freshly painted walls Eight interesting book series Nine outreach events Ten chairs in our conference room Eleven special preschool programs And Twelve happy children (and many, many more!) While some of these numbers are only a brief representation of the total figure, other quantities are right on target.\u00a0 Regardless of the number, all of these examples are just some of the gifts I received while working at our community branch library in 2013. The highlight, of course, was sharing time with the people, both customers and staff members, I have been blessed to work with this year. What has been the greatest gift you have received at work this year? What upcoming opportunity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[197,36],"tags":[803,212,430,319],"class_list":["post-7729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-meg-smith","category-slice-of-life","tag-blogger-meg-smith","tag-christmas","tag-professional-gifts","tag-slice-of-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}