{"id":2025,"date":"2007-03-26T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=271"},"modified":"2007-03-26T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T12:06:23","slug":"moving-shaking-and-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/moving-shaking-and-meeting.html","title":{"rendered":"Moving, Shaking and Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-273\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?attachment_id=273\" title=\"Unshelved ALA 2005\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/\">Library Journal<\/a> came out with their Movers &amp; Shakers supplement last week, and I got a chance to browse through it.\u00a0 I was surprised to discover that I have not only met one, but two of the people on their list.\u00a0 Note that I say &#8220;met&#8221;&#8230; I don&#8217;t &#8220;know&#8221; either of them, but have had opportunities to meet them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cod.edu\/library\/libweb\/slusar\/SLUSAR.htm\">Linda Slusar from College of DuPage<\/a> (IL) is an incredible influence in the world of library support staff.\u00a0 She is directly, and indirectly, responsible for many, many staff obtaining their LTA certification, as well as co-founding and producing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dupagepress.com\/COD\/index.php?id=1168\">Soaring to Excellence<\/a> (highly recommended).\u00a0 I first met her at the LTA graduation ceremony of a co-worker, several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gene Ambaum&#8221; is a pseudonym for an anonymous teen librarian from the Pacific Northwest who is one-half of the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overduemedia.com\/\">Unshelved<\/a> team.\u00a0 Unlike with Linda, I remembered to get proof of not only meeting &#8220;Gene&#8221;, but his co-creater Bill Barnes as well:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-273\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?attachment_id=273\" title=\"Unshelved ALA 2005\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/unshelved1.jpg\" alt=\"Unshelved ALA 2005\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library Journal came out with their Movers &amp; Shakers supplement last week, and I got a chance to browse through it.\u00a0 I was surprised to discover that I have not only met one, but two of the people on their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/moving-shaking-and-meeting.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2924,2943,2948],"tags":[4631,3370,4597,3371,3372,4045,3373],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-libraries","category-news","tag-anonymous-teen-librarian","tag-bill-barnes","tag-co-worker","tag-college-of-dupage","tag-gene-ambaum","tag-library-journal","tag-linda-slusar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-wF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}