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Ask A Librarian: Dealing with haters?

Librarian.net

A friend writes in: What are you doing about the idiotic book bannings and attacks on Librarians and what can I do to help? In New England we mostly haven’t seen the legislation issues that they’ve had other places. Talk to your local public and school librarians about what would be helpful for them.

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EIGHT WAYS TO WRITE FOR IMPACT

Barrett & Greene

Here are eight of the recommendations made in the first chapter of the book. Buy the book. Choose a good title. This can be the first introduction to readers about your work and what it’s about. If the title is long or confusing, impatient readers may move elsewhere rapidly and never have a chance to learn from what you’ve written.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. mortgage originations.

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CFP: Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies #ACRL #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

Dear Colleagues, We are issuing a call for proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled, Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies to be published by ACRL (forthcoming Spring 2024). Expected Book Publication: Spring 2024. Please see below for specific topic suggestions.

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“We are as gods and might as well get used to it.”

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

.” 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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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Conservatives were very vociferous in opposing the changes, most notably in two prominent Wall Street Journal editorials: “Upside Down Mortgage Policy” (April 22, 2023) and “Spinning Federal Mortgage Fees” (April 28, 2023). the legislation that established them).

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

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). State Politics & Policy Quarterly , 11(1), 102-118. State Legislatures. Darcy, R (996).