{"id":2075,"date":"2007-06-04T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T01:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=322"},"modified":"2007-06-04T20:06:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T01:06:35","slug":"ala-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/ala-in-focus.html","title":{"rendered":"ALA In Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/248750\">first segment of &#8220;ALA In Focus&#8221;<\/a>, an online video detailing the inner workings of various areas of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/\">American Library Association<\/a>, features Gwendolyn Prellwitz, Program Officer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/diversity\/diversity.htm\">ALA Office of Diversity &amp; Spectrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video is fantastic to watch, but what has really caught my attention is the interviewer.\u00a0 His name is <a href=\"http:\/\/alamembers.ning.com\/profile\/chrastka\">John Chrastka<\/a>, and I had the pleasure to work with him when I was the webmaster for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachingforwardsouth.org\/\">Reaching Forward South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John was (still is?) involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/ourassociation\/membership\/librarysupportstaffmembership\/LSSMembershipMain.htm\">$39 support staff membership for ALA<\/a>, which is directly tied with their efforts to recruit library-folk who happen to not-be-librarians.\u00a0 This is still one of the best deals that ALA has offered, and John is a really pleasant and friendly presence.\u00a0 His personality and enthusiasm really shows in the video segment.<\/p>\n<p>As an additional note, videos like this are much more interesting to me than the polished, professional productions that organizations usually craft to show off their projects and people.\u00a0 This truly feels like a casual conversation between two people who enjoy what they do.<\/p>\n<p>found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshiftedlibrarian.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/04\/new_ala_in_focus_video.html\">The Shifted Librarian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first segment of &#8220;ALA In Focus&#8221;, an online video detailing the inner workings of various areas of the American Library Association, features Gwendolyn Prellwitz, Program Officer for the ALA Office of Diversity &amp; Spectrum. The video is fantastic to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/ala-in-focus.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":[2924,2943,2963,2975],"tags":[3438,3362,3391,3439,3440,3441,4657,3442,4655,3021,4656],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-libraries","category-rfs","category-video","tag-ala-office-of-diversity-spectrum","tag-alabama","tag-american-library-association","tag-gwendolyn-prellwitz","tag-john-chrastka","tag-online-video","tag-program-officer","tag-reaching-forward-south","tag-the-shifted-librarian","tag-usd","tag-webmaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","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=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}