{"id":7965,"date":"2014-01-26T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2014-01-26T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:13:46","slug":"tomorrow-is-a-big-day-alamw14-alayma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/tomorrow-is-a-big-day-alamw14-alayma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is a Big Day #alamw14 #alayma"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7966\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/philly_entrance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7966\" alt=\"Pennsylvania Convention Center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/philly_entrance-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/philly_entrance-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/philly_entrance.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Youth Media Awards take place on Monday, January 27 here in Philadelphia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So maybe you know what tomorrow is? Yes, tomorrow is the announcement of the <a title=\"ALA Youth Media Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/mediapresscenter\/presskits\/youthmediaawards\/alayouthmediaawards\">2014 Youth Media Awards<\/a> which include the <a title=\"Newbery Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/newberymedal\/newberymedal\">Newbery<\/a> and <a title=\"Caldecott Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/caldecottmedal\/caldecottmedal\">Caldecott<\/a> awards amongst many others.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is a long night for the ALA staff, including some of my colleagues who are dutifully making sure that tomorrow goes off without a hitch. I want to say thank you to them.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank the committees who made some big decisions for tomorrow. They put in some long days at conference too, as well as doing a lot of reading, listening, and watching in their homes and libraries across the country. Kudos.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the pay-off for all of the hard work. Tomorrow, we get some big news. As a staff member, seeing the faces of so many gleeful attendees is one of the biggest perks of my job. See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of ALSC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So maybe you know what tomorrow is? Yes, tomorrow is the announcement of the 2014 Youth Media Awards which include the Newbery and Caldecott awards amongst many others. Tonight is a long night for the ALA staff, including some of my colleagues who are dutifully making sure that tomorrow goes off without a hitch. I want to say thank you to them. I also want to thank the committees who made some big decisions for tomorrow. They put in some long days at conference too, as well as doing a lot of reading, listening, and watching in their homes and libraries across the country. Kudos. Tomorrow is the pay-off for all of the hard work. Tomorrow, we get some big news. As a staff member, seeing the faces of so many gleeful attendees is one of the biggest perks of my job. See you tomorrow! Photo courtesy of ALSC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"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":[417,186,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwinter-2014","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}