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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. Work proceeding on remediating the Morgantown Ordinance Works. Photo courtesy of WVLSC.

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Want to know if your data are managed responsibly? Here are 15 questions to help you find out

GCN

COMMENTARY | Responsible data stewardship must take many factors into account including legal requirements, data governance, cybersecurity and user privacy.

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CFP: Journal of Advancement, Communication, and Development in Academic Libraries #OpenAccess

A Library Writer's Blog

Stewardship Showcase Section —Share an update or valuable stewardship strategy you have put in place. A user account must be created to submit an article or section item for review. Once logged into the user account, upload the submission file (Microsoft Word DOCX or DOC). Tell us all about it. Let us know.

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CFP: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations - Virtual Conference, March 8-9, 2023

A Library Writer's Blog

Collectors are increasingly willing to confront processes of repatriation, reparation and restitution, and other forms of deaccessioning, and vocabularies of ownership are giving way to those of stewardship, custody, and post-custody.

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Get Your Data House in Order

GovLoop

Collective data stewardship Ensure accountability throughout the data life cycle. Here are ways to carry out each principle. Data is a strategic asset Leverage data for both immediate and lasting benefits. Understand the value of your data. Assign specific data management-related roles. Set uniform security and privacy policies.

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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

Center for Community Progress

And Illegal dumpers are hard to find and hold accountable, so they often return. Check out our vacant land projects database for examples of vacant land stewardship and reuse. Dumping complaints often come in faster than they can be addressed, especially when cities don’t have the resources to clean up every site quickly.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

She attended housing court to hold inspectors and policymakers accountable and spent every spare moment providing opportunities for her neighbors to learn job skills, from baking to data entry. Taking care of and repurposing vacant land, or “vacant land stewardship,” is therefore a critical part of what land banks across the country do.

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