{"id":3639,"date":"2011-02-02T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2011-02-02T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:26:53","slug":"librarians-are-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/librarians-are-awesome.html","title":{"rendered":"Librarians are Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Wheaton is remembered mostly for either his acting role in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stand_by_Me_(film)\">Stand By Me<\/a>, or for his acting role as Wesley Crusher in the first four seasons of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation\">Star Trek : The Next Generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is, however, involved in many other activities, including writing books, playing tournament poker, and blogging. \u00a0One of his recent posts involved a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2011\/01\/librarians-are-awesome.html\">fantastic librarian inspiration<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don\u2019t remember her name, but I do remember that she was in her fifties, wore epic 1970s polyester pantsuits, huge glasses that hung from a long gold chain around her neck, and had a hairdo that was ten miles high. She was friendly and helpful, and when she reached out to that nerdy little kid, she changed his life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, his story is similar to my own, except I remember the name of my librarian: \u00a0Mrs. Peters.<\/p>\n<p>There are thousands of stories like this, and it is as good to remember our own, as it is to remember that \u00a0we have the chance to encourage the &lt;ahem&gt; next generation of readers in their search for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>thanks to Joan Kendall-Sperry for posting the link!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Wheaton is remembered mostly for either his acting role in Stand By Me, or for his acting role as Wesley Crusher in the first four seasons of\u00a0Star Trek : The Next Generation. He is, however, involved in many other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/librarians-are-awesome.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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2921,2937,2943,2967],"tags":[4251,5358,5331,5329,5330],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-libraries","category-space","tag-librarian","tag-libraries","tag-stand-by-me","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation","tag-wil-wheaton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-WH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}