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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

Formal instruction largely began in the 1960s and 1970s as a grassroots movement led by librarians rather than library administrators or library schools (Mellon 1987), and some librarians still feel their library administrations do not understand or value their teaching. (Oakleaf et al.

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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.

Public Policy Blog

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. Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation.

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DC makes yet another bad decision about streetcars: will replace the one line with a so called "fancy" bus | The Vision Thing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I got an email from a pr person about a conference in September about good ideas for urban revitalization, aimed at grassroots and neighborhood types. It's frequency isn't all that and the route is duplicated by the less upscale X2 bus line. Map of proposed DC streetcar lines and bus rapid transit routes. Washington Post graphic.