{"id":134,"date":"2005-01-27T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-01-27T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T16:37:44","slug":"back-from-the-frozen-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/27\/back-from-the-frozen-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries in the frozen north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from Chicago with two more interviews under my belt.  It&#8217;s lovely to see that Illinois really seems to value their libraries &#8212; or at the very least, the communities value their libraries.  Coming from Florida, a state where the Governor wanted to dismantle the state library and sell it off to a university, it is refreshing to see such enthusiasm and support for libraries.  The northern suburbs of Chicago have an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsls.info\/\">consortium<\/a> that helps the member libraries keep up with changes in technology and service provision, and offers lots of continuing education programs for librarians.  I know you folks from other states may be accustomed to libraries like the ones I&#8217;ve visited in the Chicagoland area, but I, for one, am impressed.  I&#8217;m sure the librarian giving me a tour was amused by my exclamations of amazement every time I walked into another part of the library.  For me, it really takes me back to my childhood, where the library truly held a special place in the community and was a place I loved to visit for more than just the books held within its walls.  It was not just a place to take out books and leave.  It was a place we wanted to <em>be<\/em> at.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now two weeks away from moving day, and, after this visit to Chicago, I am really looking forward to living in a place where people recognize how special libraries really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from Chicago with two more interviews under my belt. It&#8217;s lovely to see that Illinois really seems to value their libraries &#8212; or at the very least, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}