{"id":8870,"date":"2014-06-15T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2014-06-14T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T02:04:16","slug":"advocacy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/advocacy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>My time as chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/coms\/pg1childadv\/als-lg\">ALSC Advocacy and Legislation committee<\/a> is drawing to a close. It has been a privilege to serve on the committee and to chair it for this year. As I prepare to move on to another appointment, I want to take this opportunity to say goodbye and to express how honored I feel to have worked with this fantastic team of advocates: Helen Bloch, Robyn Lupa, Candice Mack, Eileen Makoff, Jenna Nemec-Loise, Viki Ash and Joanna Ison. They share such a passion for children\u2019s work and for advocating for services for young people. Congratulations to the wonderful Robyn Lupa who will become Chair at close of conference!<\/p>\n<p>Toni Bernardi<br \/>\nSan Francisco Public Library<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**************************************<\/p>\n<p>Hello &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to follow Toni\u2019s lead and chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/coms\/pg1childadv\/als-lg\">ALSC\u2019s Advocacy and Legislation committee<\/a>. Over the past ten months, I\u2019ve had the privilege of helping to shape JCPL\u2019s outreach service to kids and families. Dedicated to bringing the library to kids and caregivers, we also recognize how vital it is to communicate the value of literacy programs to our stakeholders. Along with a great team, I look forward to expanding our efforts on a local level and inspire others to make a difference!<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Lupa<br \/>\nJefferson County Public Library (CO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Everyone, My time as chair of the ALSC Advocacy and Legislation committee is drawing to a close. It has been a privilege to serve on the committee and to chair it for this year. As I prepare to move on to another appointment, I want to take this opportunity to say goodbye and to express how honored I feel to have worked with this fantastic team of advocates: Helen Bloch, Robyn Lupa, Candice Mack, Eileen Makoff, Jenna Nemec-Loise, Viki Ash and Joanna Ison. They share such a passion for children\u2019s work and for advocating for services for young people. Congratulations to the wonderful Robyn Lupa who will become Chair at close of conference! Toni Bernardi San Francisco Public Library ************************************** Hello &#8211; I\u2019m excited to follow Toni\u2019s lead and chair ALSC\u2019s Advocacy and Legislation committee. Over the past ten months, I\u2019ve had the privilege of helping to shape JCPL\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-advocacy-and-legislation-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}