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CFP: Collaborations and Outreach for Student Success: Initiatives for College and Small University Libraries (ACRL Publication)

A Library Writer's Blog

While many volumes have been published about academic library outreach programs, these often showcase libraries with extensive staff, budgets, and materials available to them. They will also be challenged to explore how these programs can be assessed and recreated at their own institution.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Virtual Tools Expand Outreach “We were able to get so much more information,” Skowera said. “We That created a problem: How could the city design a community space without the input of the community?

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Virtual Tools Expand Outreach. “We That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed. Rethink to Boost Participation.

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How to build awareness of flood risk and gain buy-in for flood control measures

American City & Country

Floods are one of the most devastating events to strike a community—costly in terms of lives lost, damaged or destroyed homes, economic disruption, and damage to critical infrastructure. To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. The 1% and 0.2%

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo: David Jackson, Park Record. An article, " Community Planning Lab projects offer solutions to Summit County’s problems ," in the Park Record discusses Summit County's relatively new Community Planning Lab initiative. The course requires at least three and a half hours of work each week. Citizen engaged planning practice.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake. Special Funding.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.