Librarian.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I wanted to make you aware of an issue concerning book challenges. They're gonna come for libraries and books even harder than they ever had before. making sure you are familiar with your collection and what books in your collection may be challenged. There is a Twitter thread that I found useful for this which is here.

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Library created a Facebook post that leads to an infographic , which lays out the number of participants, visitors, programs, and pages or books read in plain, easy-to-understand details. And they share that data to prove their value to their community, donors, legislators, and whoever controls their budget. Social media.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

One of the best books explaining the value of historic preservation to urban revitalization is Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl , written at the time by the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This is a point made in both Urban Fortunes and History of Urban Places (both great books).

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Super Library Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

LinkedIn is also a place where your library can build partnerships, fundraising, and legislative support. Special Collections Grant writing resources LinkedIn is a perfect place for you to talk about the impact of these programs on your community. Newberry Library uses LinkedIn to promote its collection and more by sharing its blog posts.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JULY 5, 2023

This book focuses on how academic and research library workers can engage in advocacy and policy work at different levels ( local, regional, and national ) , and share s strategies on advocating for specific policies/issues impacting academic/research libraries. Expected Book Publication: Spring 2024.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

As I’ve written in my book , Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it. The Boring Company was supposed to solve traffic, not be the Las Vegas amusement ride it is now.

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Masters in Public Administration

JULY 18, 2011

There are also specialized searches such as Thomas , which allows viewing of legislative documents, and Copyright , which shares information related to copyrights. They also include books, series, references, and protocols. Also included are articles, research, reports, and books. If looking for scientific research, stop here.

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Librarian.net

JULY 10, 2021

” Banned Books Week’s theme will be “Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us.” We all celebrated the COVID-19 spending bill which included “the largest ever direct and indirect funding for libraries approved by Congress.” Web address for more information and resources is: [link] ala.org/bbooks.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

DC recently passed legislation to allow non-citizens to participate in local elections, including running for office. Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials. I think that's reasonable.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 11, 2025

Yet to be confirmed is how much of the $900,000 was disbursed to the grantee and spent on the purposes for which it was intended or returned to the city.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 12, 2022

Among other important measures this piece of legislation seeks to fund critical programs to drive economic recovery and to make the temporary fixes permanent through investment in modernization. Last year, on March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Michael Lewis has a good book, The Fifth Risk , on the investment by the federal government in the development of science and technology, like weather prediction systems and the work of federal laboratories. This is a pdf of the book.) Also see writings on innovation districts and quarters more generally. billion CHIPS Act.

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Librarian.net

MAY 31, 2023

Nationally, public libraries are struggling under constant book challenges in public and school libraries. And it’s a Vermont issue. Nearly one fifth of Vermont towns have passed resolutions at town meeting (over a decade ago) affirming that they feel money is not speech and corporations are not people.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away. As part of ensuring that support, the average G-fee at the time was thus kept low – in the 0.20 Also, the 0.10

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

.” This wonderful review essay, built around a review of three books each of which place the somewhat jaded optimism of the Internet’s early promise in a larger frame and, in the process, asks some unsettling questions power, politics and performance. You can click the link and get access for yourself.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The attack – which disabled digital services used by the NHS’ 111 medical advice helpline to refer patients for care, including appointment bookings, emergency prescriptions, and ambulance dispatch – left health workers being forced to rely on pen and paper to coordinate services. legislation, the findings are universal.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 11, 2023

States can short their pension obligations, issue debt to cover operating expenses, create off-the-books entities to issue debt, pass the buck to local governments, and game the revenue estimate - just to name a few gimmicks. Yet, by and large, year after year, most states pass fiscally constrained budgets. Money is no object.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Tom Murphy, first a legislator in Pennsylvania, and later long-time Mayor of Pittsburgh, created the infrastructure for the "Regional Asset District" in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which supports the big cultural institutions in the city (museums, libraries, parks, etc.)

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When we originally wrote the book, we were aware of a sea of writing that ballyhooed the potential of performance management to cure what ailed state and local government. Communication of performance measurement information to legislators should be kept short and to the point to increase the likelihood that it is read.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

One proposal that two former chairs of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security chose for a book would have a new screening system that would identify applicants who could continue to work if they received swift supports, e.g. , vocational rehabilitation, assistive technologies like a computer speaks what’s on the monitor.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place " ( American Journal of Sociology , 1976) lays out the concepts, which were expanded in a book, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Florida and Disney.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes. the legislation that established them). 16] This is symbolic legislation, as there is no chance it will be passed by the Democratic-controlled Senate. [17] It is discussed below. [19]

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

One candidate definition is that the power of a legislative leader or party is an ability to achieve outcomes that would otherwise have been unattainable or to prevent outcomes that otherwise would have taken place (Bachrach and Baratz 1963). Women in the state legislative power structure: committee chairs. State Legislatures.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

Will GSE reform, including conservatorship exit, be accomplished through congressional legislation? Question #4: Will GSE reform, including conservatorship exit, be accomplished through congressional legislation? When might we learn what Trump II has actually decided about its position on GSE conservatorship exit? 7] See [link]. [8]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It's still accessible, and there are plenty of other resources around the web, including guidebooks from NACTO: -- Urban Design Guide , web version , book purchase -- Urban Bikeway Design Guide -- Transit Street Design Guide And it should be no surprise because Trump and his Republican agenda is backwards looking, favoring the automobile.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 15, 2022

Certainly, the in ability of Democrats to pass legislation and the minoritarian control of the federal government means that it's pretty much in stasis. A few years ago I joked with Simon Anholt, co-author of the book Brand America , that under Trump, Brand America became: Can't Do.

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