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Legal Issues for Volunteers Responding to Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Van Nostrand is an expert in legal epidemiology—the study and application of law as an intervention to prevent disease and injury. She is the co-author of three public health emergency law bench books for health departments in the District of Columbia, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.

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How One Law Library Marketer Breaks Through the Noisy Digital World To Reach a Target Audience

Super Library Marketing

“I couldn’t understand how it was legal to be allowed to borrow as many books as I wanted!” Now Renee gets to spend every day surrounded by books (and other great services, of course) in her role as Library Education and Communications Coordinator for the Law Library Victoria. remembered Renee. One of you did that!

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You Don’t Have to Choose Between Print and Digital Books: How to Promote Your Collection to Patrons Who Use BOTH Formats

Super Library Marketing

How many times have you been asked the question: which do you prefer most, print or digital books? The Pew Research Center questions Americans about their reading habits and preferred book format every year. Here are the topline numbers: 75 percent of adults in the United States read a book in some format over the last year.

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Every person their book

Librarian.net

.'” A few people on the list discussed their own children who didn’t like the books they were given to read in school. Our local Humanities Council , which I love and which I used to be on the board of, has consistently picked books in this loose topic area for the past half-decade.

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Could the feds withhold broadband funding to some states?

GCN

Several states appear unwilling to change laws on their books that are at odds with a requirement in the 2021 infrastructure law.

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Demystifying AI: How RAG boosts efficiency in state and local government departments

AWS Public Sector Blog

Bridging the knowledge gap with LLMs Imagine if every government employee had an assistant who had read every book, document, and memo in the world. It’s critical for anyone invested in the future of public service. This assistant could draft policies, answer public inquiries, and create reports in seconds.

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Ensure Your Digital Library Marketing Passes Accessibility Tests: Expert’s Urgent Advice

Super Library Marketing

When I got the chicken pox and was out of school for days, my mother asked the childrens librarian for books I would like. I loved every book!” I thought that the push for full compliance was the result of a new law. My favorite memory about a library wasnt directly in a library, recalls Laura. I was wrong.