{"id":423,"date":"2015-04-08T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:02:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:02:50","slug":"celebrate-dia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/2015\/04\/08\/celebrate-dia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Dia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00eda\u00a0is a national literacy initiative celebrated daily in libraries to empower children and families from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds with tools to become critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and active global citizens. Libraries hosting D\u00eda events make a daily commitment to foster cultural understanding through displays, collections, services, and programs that represent our culturally pluralistic society. Each year on April 30<sup>th<\/sup>, many libraries plan culminating D\u00eda activities to commemorate specific cultural groups within their library community and bring together diverse children and families to celebrate global literacy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search through the<a href=\"http:\/\/dia.ala.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> D\u00eda website<\/a> for FREE program downloads and to get more information about D\u00eda.<\/li>\n<li>Explore the new<a href=\"http:\/\/dia.ala.org\/action\" target=\"_blank\"> D\u00eda Action tab <\/a>which is packed full of multicultural resources including free webinars, links to useful articles, ideas on how YOU can move the diversity needle forward, and\u00a0much more!<\/li>\n<li>Watch the FREE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/building-steam-d%C3%AD-whys-and-hows-getting-started\" target=\"_blank\"> Building STEAM with D\u00eda: The Whys and Hows to Getting Started<\/a> webinar.<\/li>\n<li>Read through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152979277199144&amp;id=194406259143&amp;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\"> January<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153126395979144&amp;id=194406259143&amp;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\"> March<\/a> D\u00eda Get Together Facebook chats for links to resources.<\/li>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/mediapresscenter\/presskits\/eldiapresskit\/diapubtools\" target=\"_blank\"> D\u00eda Press Kit<\/a> to help you share information about your event with your media outlets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00eda\u00a0is a national literacy initiative celebrated daily in libraries to empower children and families from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds with tools to become critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and active global citizens. Libraries hosting D\u00eda events make a daily commitment to foster cultural understanding through displays, collections, services, and programs that represent our culturally pluralistic [&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-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}