{"id":7695,"date":"2026-10-06T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:50:23","slug":"american-library-association-was-founded-in-1876-in-philadelphia-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7695","title":{"rendered":"American Library Association Was Founded in 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8354\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8354\" class=\"  wp-image-8354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Great-Books-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Great Books\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Award-Winning Books<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>American Library Association was founded in 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/strong>. Today the nonprofit organization has 62,000 members and a staff of 300. It sponsors a number of awards, including the John Newbery Awards, Randolph Caldecott Awards, Pura Belpr\u00e9 Awards, and Coretta Scott King Awards. Adults can find a list of the award-winning books at: <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ala.org\/recommended-reading\/children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book Lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Library Association was founded in 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today the nonprofit organization has 62,000 members and a staff of 300. It sponsors a number of awards, including the John Newbery Awards, Randolph Caldecott Awards, Pura Belpr\u00e9 Awards, and Coretta Scott King Awards. Adults can find a list of the award-winning books at: Book <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7695' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5353,2919,2923,2920,5924,2922,2921],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5353","tag-american-library-association","tag-coretta-scott-king-awards","tag-john-newbery-awards","tag-october-6","tag-pura-belpre-awards","tag-randolph-caldecott-awards","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29768,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/29768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}