{"id":850,"date":"2015-09-18T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=850"},"modified":"2015-09-18T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:05:00","slug":"libraries-transform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2015\/09\/18\/libraries-transform\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries Transform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/09\/1442368178786.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-851\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/09\/1442368178786.png\" alt=\"1442368178786\" width=\"225\" height=\"49\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association has announced details of its new public awareness campaign, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librariestransform.org\/#because\">Libraries Transform<\/a><\/em>, will launch in Washington, D.C. and in communities and libraries around the country on 29 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the new campaign is to increase public awareness of the ways that libraries of all types transform people\u2019s lives and communities; shift perception of the library from \u201cobsolete\u201d or \u201cnice to have\u201d to essential; and energize library professionals and external advocates to influence local, state and national decision-makers and increase support for libraries of all types.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever you are in the world be sure to visit this site and explore the resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association has announced details of its new public awareness campaign, Libraries Transform, will launch in Washington, D.C. and in communities and libraries around the country on 29 October 2015. The purpose of the new campaign is to increase public awareness of the ways that libraries of all types transform people\u2019s lives and [&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":[82,20881,22808],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ala","tag-american-library-association","tag-libraries-transform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}