{"id":1440,"date":"2014-02-06T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slisgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:56:49","slug":"world-book-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/world-book-night\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slisgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/worldbooknight2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1441\" alt=\"worldbooknight2\" src=\"https:\/\/slisgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/worldbooknight2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>We are excited to announce that Elaine Hall, our Board Chair, will be distributing books for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.worldbooknight.org\/\">World Book Night<\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a simple breakdown of how it works:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each year, 30- 35 books are chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers&#8230;After the book titles are announced, members of the public apply to personally hand out 20 copies of a particular title in their community. World Book Night U.S. vets the applications, and the givers are chosen based on their ability to reach light and non-readers&#8230;On April 23rd, they give their books to those who don\u2019t regularly read and\/or people who don\u2019t normally have access to printed books, for reasons of means or geography&#8221; (from their website).<\/p>\n<p>Cool, huh?\u00a0 Elaine will be handing out \u00a0Lighthouse Road, by Peter Geye in WA.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a SJSU SLISer participating, holler on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alasc\">Facebook page<\/a> &#8211; or add a pin to our <a href=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/map\/edit?mid=zBikdQNNPmT8.k3DifPNG2mYY\">map<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Elaine Hall, our Board Chair, will be distributing books for World Book Night!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a simple breakdown of how it works: &#8220;Each year, 30- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}