{"id":2318,"date":"2010-06-25T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:18","slug":"inspiration-and-aspiration-library-as-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/inspiration-and-aspiration-library-as-third-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration and aspiration &#8211; Library as Third Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/blyberg.net\">John Blyberg<\/a>, Darien Library Assistant Director for Innovation and User Experience, explained the function, future and innovations in public libraries to a group of &#8221; thought leaders [sharing] ideas on common challenges and best practices on issues ranging from Public Health and Transparency in Government to Human Rights and Community Development&#8221;  at the <a href=\"http:\/\/classic.cnbc.com\/id\/37879439\">U.S. &#8211; Russia Civil Society to Civil Society (C2C) Summit<\/a> in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for standing up for libraries, John, and creating such a beautiful slideset that focuses on what libraries can offer. <\/p>\n<p>Few libraries are as richly resourced as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darienlibrary.org\/\">Darien Library<\/a>. The slideset highlights what is possible and the attitude and energy we can strive for as we focus on our community needs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px\" id=\"__ss_4607490\"><strong style=\"display:block;margin:12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jblyberg\/the-third-place\" title=\"The Third Place\">The Third Place<\/a><\/strong><object id=\"__sse4607490\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=civicsoc-100624163153-phpapp01&#038;stripped_title=the-third-place\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:5px 0 12px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jblyberg\">John Blyberg<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, John Blyberg, Darien Library Assistant Director for Innovation and User Experience, explained the function, future and innovations in public libraries to a group of &#8221; thought leaders [sharing] ideas on common challenges and best practices on issues ranging from Public Health and Transparency in Government to Human Rights and Community Development&#8221; at the U.S.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-Bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}