{"id":8364,"date":"2014-03-16T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2014-03-15T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T02:48:59","slug":"focus-on-the-positive-book-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/focus-on-the-positive-book-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Positive: Book Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in the airport with library colleagues and we started talking about all of the positives that can come out of a materials challenge. Challenges can be stressful, but they do bring good for libraries, books and reading. Here are four of the ideas we talked about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A book challenge starts a valuable community conversation.<\/li>\n<li>It gets people to read books that might stretch their minds.<\/li>\n<li>It puts media attention on authors, books, reading and intellectual freedom.<\/li>\n<li>It highlights the role of the public library and how we work to represent the entire community in our collections, programs and services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you have to add to this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in the airport with library colleagues and we started talking about all of the positives that can come out of a materials challenge. Challenges can be stressful, but they do bring good for libraries, books and reading. Here are four of the ideas we talked about: A book challenge starts a valuable community conversation. It gets people to read books that might stretch their minds. It puts media attention on authors, books, reading and intellectual freedom. It highlights the role of the public library and how we work to represent the entire community in our collections, programs and services. What do you have to add to this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"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":[272,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-intellectual-freedom-committee","category-intellectual-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}