{"id":857,"date":"2009-08-21T06:38:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2009-08-21T06:38:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:38:05","slug":"morris-seminar-reflections-eye-opening-presentations-excellent-books-thought-provoking-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/morris-seminar-reflections-eye-opening-presentations-excellent-books-thought-provoking-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Seminar Reflections: Eye-opening Presentations, Excellent Books, Thought-provoking Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">I never met Bill Morris, though many of his stories have found their way to me. The stories people tell about Bill Morris are so engaging&#8211;so powerful&#8211;that they often leave me wishing I could have known him too. And sometimes they leave me feeling that surely I must have known him after all&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">I was selected to attend ALSC\u2019s first Bill Morris Seminar and I loved every minute of it. All the eye-opening presentations, excellent books, thought-provoking discussions and truly incredible new friends and mentors melded together into a perfect, magical day that I will carry with me always. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">Charged with intensity and fun, this seminar pays a brilliant tribute to Bill Morris. It allows his legacy to carry on in such a special, life-changing way. I feel very fortunate to have been a part of it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">Julie Roach<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">Cambridge Public Library<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">Cambridge, MA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never met Bill Morris, though many of his stories have found their way to me. The stories people tell about Bill Morris are so engaging&#8211;so powerful&#8211;that they often leave me wishing I could have known him too. And sometimes they leave me feeling that surely I must have known him after all&#8230; I was selected to attend ALSC\u2019s first Bill Morris Seminar and I loved every minute of it. All the eye-opening presentations, excellent books, thought-provoking discussions and truly incredible new friends and mentors melded together into a perfect, magical day that I will carry with me always. Charged with intensity and fun, this seminar pays a brilliant tribute to Bill Morris. It allows his legacy to carry on in such a special, life-changing way. I feel very fortunate to have been a part of it. Julie Roach Cambridge Public Library Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morris-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}