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TXLA2017 logo courtesy of Texas Library Association<\/p><\/div> By the time you read this post, I will have <\/p>\n
– listened to Cory Doctorow<\/a>, Carmen Agra Deedy<\/a>, and Chelsea Clinton<\/a> speaking to thousands of enrapt librarians at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in San Antonio,<\/p>\n – toted dozens and dozens of ARCs (advance reader copies<\/a>) all over the gigantic convention center and to my hotel, as I asked publishers’ representatives which forthcoming books they adored in-house, but might get overshadowed by the season’s “big books” and blockbusters,<\/p>\n – and even succumbed to the lure of acquiring a few completed books signed by authors, both brand-new and deservedly famous, despite the extra weight of hardcovers and acid-free paper.<\/p>\n Life in the world of books and ideas and imagination is very good!<\/p>\n But the libraries that serve us all are threatened by drastic funding cuts at the national<\/a> and state<\/a> level. <\/p>\n Please, please, click on those links to find ways to tell legislators how libraries make a difference in your community and your life – it will take all our voices to change their minds.<\/p>\n What’s your best library story? By the time you read this post, I will have – listened to Cory Doctorow, Carmen Agra Deedy, and Chelsea Clinton speaking to thousands of enrapt librarians at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in San Antonio, – toted dozens and dozens of ARCs (advance reader copies) all over the gigantic convention center and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[237,19,23,98],"tags":[10,11,228,49,56,15,35,3,61],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-nonfiction","category-reflective","tag-a2z","tag-communication","tag-library","tag-memories","tag-reading","tag-relationships","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/TXLA2017-Web-Logo.jpg?fit=800%2C326&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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