{"id":128,"date":"2013-04-24T07:38:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T06:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=128"},"modified":"2013-04-25T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:43:27","slug":"extending-the-hand-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2013\/04\/24\/extending-the-hand-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending the hand of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/04\/suitcase.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129\" alt=\"suitcase\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/04\/suitcase.png\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From CILIP&#8217;s International Library and Information Group comes information about the Library Hosts Directory.<\/p>\n<p>The Hosts Directory is exactly that &#8211; a list of international librarians who are willing to host, for a day or two, a fellow library and information worker who is visiting their city or region. Hosts are located across the world &#8211; please see the Map of hosts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsMaps\">www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsMaps<\/a> . All information is anonymous and you will not be put in contact with a guest without agreeing beforehand \u2013 the idea is that you will be able to stay with a professional colleague when attending a conference, event or just travelling abroad rather than in a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>All you need is a spare bed or room and the desire to meet colleagues from other countries, to share experiences and to contribute, in a small way, to building bridges to international understanding and co-operation within the library and information profession. Guidance for potential Hosts is also available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsGuide\">www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsGuide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please help us expand the directory by registering online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsRegistration\">www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsRegistration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the visitor &#8211; the guest &#8211; it is a chance to get to know, at first hand, something of the life of a fellow professional in a foreign country as well as the opportunity to stay with a colleague for free or at limited cost.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to use the Hosts Directory as a guest, please first check the Map of hosts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsMaps\">www.tinyurl.com\/CILIPHostsMaps<\/a> to see there are Hosts in the area you are visiting and email the Hosts Directory Administrator at <a href=\"mailto:ciliphostsdirectory@gmail.com\">ciliphostsdirectory@gmail.com<\/a> with details of who you are, where you want to and how long they want to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From CILIP&#8217;s International Library and Information Group comes information about the Library Hosts Directory. The Hosts Directory is exactly that &#8211; a list of international librarians who are willing to host, for a day or two, a fellow library and information worker who is visiting their city or region. Hosts are located across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16054,16056,16055],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cilip","tag-international-relations","tag-library-hosts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}