{"id":268,"date":"2014-07-02T00:43:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T22:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-07-02T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T22:43:22","slug":"ala-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/2014\/07\/02\/ala-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">More than 13,000 attendees learned the many ways that libraries transform communities, while more than 5,600 exhibitors demonstrated their wares during the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference &amp; Exhibition, held June 26 \u2013 July 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event drew library leaders and staff, educators, writers, publishers, Friends of libraries, trustees, special guests and exhibitors from the library and information industry. Attendees participated in more than 2,500 meetings, programs, discussion groups, events, in-depth conversations and exhibits, united by the theme \u201cTransforming Our Libraries, Ourselves.\u201d IFLA section member Lesley Farmer presented a session on teaching digital citizenship to youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 800 exhibiting companies featured the latest in books, digital products including online services and software, furniture and other materials and services vital to today\u2019s libraries, librarians, and users.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding the 2014 ALA Annual Conference &amp; Exhibition\u00a0 visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.csulb.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=4L9rbm8_lUKCEAYLp4jg3ek72AIMadEIQnjM3ztHfYSJVLzv4uQpW4Qiq4LhwkFPqDkCAHaSsHA.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fala14.ala.org%2f\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ala14.ala.org\/<\/a>. For conference coverage highlights please visit the ALA Annual Conference &amp; Exhibition daily newspaper Cognotes or American Libraries coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 2015 ALA Annual Conference\u00a0 &amp; Exhibition will take place in San Francisco from June 25 \u2013 30.<\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with approximately 56,000 members in academic, public, school, government and special libraries. The mission of the ALA\u00a0 is to provide leadership for the development, promotion and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 13,000 attendees learned the many ways that libraries transform communities, while more than 5,600 exhibitors demonstrated their wares during the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference &amp; Exhibition, held June 26 \u2013 July 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This year\u2019s event drew library leaders and staff, educators, writers, publishers, Friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}