{"id":1591,"date":"2018-03-19T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:30:23","slug":"libraries-for-the-people-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Libraries for the People 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the honor of addressing two group of librarians later this week. The theme of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vaasl.org\/\">VAASL<\/a> regional conferences this year is Libraries for the People. Simple and powerful&#8230;that&#8217;s what libraries are all about. As the librarians in the Libraries Will Survive video remind us: as long as there are patrons, librarians will find a way to serve them despite funding cuts and calls for their dismantling. Let me make this clear: librarians are needed more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>I will be talking about how LibraryThing saved my social media life, providing a place where people come together around shared interests. It unites rather than divides. And, I will be spending time with the group exploring the <a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\">Digital Public Library of Virginia<\/a>\u00a0and brainstorming ideas for using these kinds of digital materials.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the slides:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRRCiWqPHt4g-9zwvIO83Builxbr0mB-3S0CbUqhycXFY60TUP8C6E_917lLXnUxN9UDyXXgInFeCvN\/embed?start=false&#038;loop=false&#038;delayms=3000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"299\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m collecting all the links I mention here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/outliner\/euukaz\/Libraries-for-the-People?key=2cznzu8vxo\">Resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the honor of addressing two group of librarians later this week. The theme of the VAASL regional conferences this year is Libraries for the People. Simple and powerful&#8230;that&#8217;s what libraries are all about. As the librarians in the Libraries Will Survive video remind us: as long as there are patrons, librarians will find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Libraries for the People 2018<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,399],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries","tag-vaasl"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-pF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}