{"id":594,"date":"2014-08-17T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=594"},"modified":"2014-08-17T11:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T10:02:30","slug":"594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2014\/08\/17\/594\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/08\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/08\/image-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/08\/image-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/08\/image-1024x330.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to everyone who made our Satellite in Birmingham such a success. How could it be anything else with such a wonderful range of speakers in a fabulous setting.<\/p>\n<p>Our theme of public libraries in the digital world led to some interesting papers and a lot of discussion. Each of the 150 plus delegates came away with a very real awareness that we need to act now if public libraries are to remain relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Our hosts the Library of Birmingham made us all so welcome in their outstanding new building. We&#8217;d also like to acknowledge our partners, CILIP and the Society of Chief Librarians for their assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks too for our colleagues from the CILIP Public and Mobile Libraries group who, among other things, arranged for us to be able to see some mobile libraries.<\/p>\n<p>The papers from the conference will be available on the PLS website next week (when we all get back from IFLA in Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A huge thank you to everyone who made our Satellite in Birmingham such a success. How could it be anything else with such a wonderful range of speakers in a fabulous setting. Our theme of public libraries in the digital world led to some interesting papers and a lot of discussion. Each of the [&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":[20879,20918,16099,20943],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-birmingham","tag-library-of-birmingham","tag-mobile-libraries","tag-society-of-chief-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}