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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. The Drumbrae Library in Scotland includes a day care facility (" Work begins on Drumbrae's new library, day care centre and youth cafe ," Guardian, 2011). The four biggest issues these days are: 1. Although later the proposal was rescinded. Libraries as community hubs.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

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Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials. Retrieved from [link]. Overeem, Patrick (2012).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started this as a budget measure in the 1970s (now Harford County, Maryland does something similar too). In any case, people like to volunteer, hold classes, do demonstrations, etc., at farmers and public markets. More places are "allowing" citizens to deliver recreation programming.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.