{"id":1002,"date":"2016-02-05T01:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T00:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2016-02-05T01:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T00:39:48","slug":"love-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2016\/02\/05\/love-is-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is in the air!"},"content":{"rendered":"

February has long been a time to celebrate love (think Valentine’s Day), but increasingly it’s also a time for the community to demonstrate love for their\u00a0library.<\/p>\n

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In the UK the 6 February is National Libraries Day<\/a>. Now in its fifth year, the annual celebration highlights the importance of libraries as vitally important public services which are loved by individuals and communities everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"logo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile in the US February is Library Lovers Month<\/a> based around Ilovelibraries.org,\u00a0an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA), designed to keep America informed about what\u2019s happening in today\u2019s libraries. Ilovelibraries.org promotes the value of libraries and librarians, explains key issues affecting libraries, and urges readers to support and take action for their libraries.<\/p>\n

\"Face\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the southern hemisphere Australian librarians \u00a0have claimed Valentines Day (14th February) and made it their own –\u00a0Library Lovers Day <\/a>! They argue that not everyone receives flowers and chocolates on Valentines Day but everyone<\/span> can use their library. This year Library Lovers Day will celebrate 10 years since it was launched<\/a>. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February has long been a time to celebrate love (think Valentine’s Day), but increasingly it’s also a time for the community to demonstrate love for their\u00a0library. In the UK the 6 February is National Libraries Day. Now in its fifth year, the annual celebration highlights the importance of libraries as vitally important public services which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20887,20888],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-library-lovers-day","tag-national-libraries-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}