{"id":2327,"date":"2010-06-28T08:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2010-06-28T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T00:27:18","slug":"what-do-you-want-passionate-readers-to-know-about-the-future-of-public-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/what-do-you-want-passionate-readers-to-know-about-the-future-of-public-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you want passionate readers to know about the future of public libraries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/bookshow\/\">ABC Radio National&#8217;s Book Show<\/a> this Wednesday 30 June talking about the future of public\u00a0 libraries along with other guest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sisr.net\/about\/people\/1mcshane.htm\">Ian McShane<\/a> from Swinburne University.\u00a0 I record at 8am, with the show being broadcast at 10:30am and repeated at 8pm that night.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is a future&#8230;let me show you it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<em>if you had just one thing that you think a group of educated people, passionate about books and reading, should know about our libraries and the future, what would it be ?<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eszter\/68153223\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/15\/68153223_665dbdf47d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moonstruck chocolates uploaded to Flickr January 7, 2009. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I skipped Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"..\/..\/2010\/06\/01\/30-posts-in-30-days\/\">30     posts in 30 days<\/a> post because I was flat out&#8230;. and then in one of those &#8220;just have one more square of chocolate&#8221; moments on Sunday &#8230;. I skipped a post for that day too. It felt really, really good not to feel like I *had* to say something when I had nothing to say&#8230; aaaah. This challenge has been a great way to get back into a blogging rhythm, and I have loved reading everyone&#8217;s posts, but gee I&#8217;m going to enjoy being a bit quieter.<\/p>\n<p>Post 28 of the <a href=\"..\/..\/2010\/06\/01\/30-posts-in-30-days\/\">30    posts in 30 days<\/a> challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be on ABC Radio National&#8217;s Book Show this Wednesday 30 June talking about the future of public\u00a0 libraries along with other guest, Ian McShane from Swinburne University.\u00a0 I record at 8am, with the show being broadcast at 10:30am and repeated at 8pm that night. Of course there is a future&#8230;let me show&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-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-Bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","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=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}