{"id":1551,"date":"2017-08-29T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2017-08-29T07:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:47:55","slug":"more-to-a-library-than-just-books-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2017\/08\/29\/more-to-a-library-than-just-books-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"More to a library than &#8216;just books&#8217; &#8211; Conference Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLS Member, Lo Claesson was one of the presenters at<em> Check me out\u00a0<\/em>a one hour session at the WLIC 2017 \u00a0developed by the Public Libraries Section together with Metropolitan Libraries and Acquisition and Collection Development. Here&#8217;s Lo&#8217;s report:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2017\/08\/Lo-and-Anette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1554\" class=\"wp-image-1554 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2017\/08\/Lo-and-Anette-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2017\/08\/Lo-and-Anette-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2017\/08\/Lo-and-Anette-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2017\/08\/Lo-and-Anette.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lo and Anette talk about projects in Sweden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The session had four speakers from PLS : Jan Richards, incoming chair, who gave her top ten from a list of 113 things you could check art from the library, that wasn&#8217;t books.<\/p>\n<p>Lo Claesson and Anette Mj\u00f6berg, new secretary, who presented some things you can\u00a0 borrow at the library from a human right&#8217;s and environmental perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Marian Morgan-Bindon, outgoing chair, showed different kinds of aids for children with special needs that parents could borrow from one library in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>All presentations, not just ours from PLS, seemed to be appreciated as there were many questions. Especially about the electric bikes H\u00e4ssleholm Public Library lent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLS Member, Lo Claesson was one of the presenters at Check me out\u00a0a one hour session at the WLIC 2017 \u00a0developed by the Public Libraries Section together with Metropolitan Libraries and Acquisition and Collection Development. Here&#8217;s Lo&#8217;s report: The session had four speakers from PLS : Jan Richards, incoming chair, who gave her top ten [&hellip;]<\/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":[26549],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-wlic-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}