{"id":3796,"date":"2014-02-03T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2014-02-03T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:58:48","slug":"the-lemony-snicket-prize-for-noble-librarians-faced-with-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/the-lemony-snicket-prize-for-noble-librarians-faced-with-adversity.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA Council has approved a new award, <a title=\"Lemony Snicket Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/awardsgrants\/lemony-snicket\"><strong>The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity<\/strong><\/a>, to be awarded annually to a librarian who \u201chas faced adversity with integrity and dignity intact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this will be awarded during the upcoming years, given the wonderful tongue-in-cheek attitude of the award&#8217;s namesake. Mr. Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) sums it up nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This seems like a better way to channel money to librarians than my previous strategy, which was incurring exorbitant late fees.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA Council has approved a new award, The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity, to be awarded annually to a librarian who \u201chas faced adversity with integrity and dignity intact.\u201d It will be interesting to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/the-lemony-snicket-prize-for-noble-librarians-faced-with-adversity.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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2929,2943,2948],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-libraries","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ze","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","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=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}