{"id":486,"date":"2014-12-24T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:07:58","slug":"whats-new-in-library-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/24\/whats-new-in-library-land\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in Library Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part of my degree program includes creating an e-portfolio showcasing my accomplishments in different aspects of librarianship. Two of them are advocacy and collaboration. I think I will use my work with New Hampshire Library Association as part of my portfolio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In case you are not familiar with NHLA, they are a wonderful group comprised of librarians and paraprofessionals engaged in a number of activities. I work with the Reference and Adult Services (READS) committee. We host an annual conference and a series of roundtables throughout the state.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was asked to create a brochure for the 2014 conference &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Fall 2014 NHLA READS Conference Brochure\" href=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/?p=494\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Reference and Relevance in the 21st Century<\/span><\/a><\/span><a title=\"Fall 2014 NHLA READS Conference Brochure\" href=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/?p=494\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and was thrilled when I was asked to create a web page for the 2015 Roundtable Series &#8220;The Community Driven Library: Understanding your Community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the things I did in recent weeks was set up a Google group for our committee to collaborate. As one of the newer members, I was having a hard time keeping track of everyone who I wanted to communicate with. Having a single point of contact has been helpful to me for other groups. We&#8217;ll see how it works for READS. So far, so good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since we are spread out across the state, we do most of our work through email and sometimes by phone. We meet\u00a0occasionally, and I last week I was surprised how much we got done in a face to face meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of my degree program includes creating an e-portfolio showcasing my accomplishments in different aspects of librarianship. Two of them are advocacy and collaboration. I think I will use my work with New Hampshire Library Association as part of my portfolio. In case you are not familiar with NHLA, they are a wonderful group comprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}