{"id":7960,"date":"2014-01-26T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2014-01-26T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T22:01:32","slug":"visiting-the-exhibits-at-alamw14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/visiting-the-exhibits-at-alamw14\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Exhibits at #alamw14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of attending an ALA conference is the exhibit hall. Vendors from all walks of library life fill these massive conference spaces with their booths, and it&#8217;s a busy, bustling place from opening till closing. I very much enjoy visiting publisher booths while at conference, as it offers a great opportunity to see what upcoming books you and your readers can look forward to.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7962\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7962 \" alt=\"One of the books I've been highly anticipating, fresh off the exhibit hall floor. Photo by Amy Koester.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-21-225x300.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-21-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the books I&#8217;ve been highly anticipating, fresh off the exhibit hall floor. Photo by Amy Koester.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I love browsing the booths, where more often than not a publisher employee will come over and start a conversation. I like to talk about what upcoming titles my kids and I are excitedly anticipating, and I also like to pose questions to the publisher reps to get an idea of what to expect in the upcoming publishing season. This conference, I&#8217;ve been asking particularly about books with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) connections. I&#8217;ve also spotted a few upcoming titles I really can&#8217;t wait to read&#8211;and often, when a galley is available, a publisher rep is happy to share a copy. Making time to wander and browse is definitely a highlight of my conference experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of attending an ALA conference is the exhibit hall. Vendors from all walks of library life fill these massive conference spaces with their booths, and it&#8217;s a busy, bustling place from opening till closing. I very much enjoy visiting publisher booths while at conference, as it offers a great opportunity to see what upcoming books you and your readers can look forward to. I love browsing the booths, where more often than not a publisher employee will come over and start a conversation. I like to talk about what upcoming titles my kids and I are excitedly anticipating, and I also like to pose questions to the publisher reps to get an idea of what to expect in the upcoming publishing season. This conference, I&#8217;ve been asking particularly about books with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) connections. I&#8217;ve also spotted a few upcoming titles&#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":[417,264,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwinter-2014","category-blogger-amy-koester","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","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=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}