Educators in the Houston metro area are readying a “book trafficker” caravan that would travel March 12–18 from Houston, Texas, to Tucson, Arizona, to donate books about the Mexican-American experience to four volunteer libraries. The
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Age among librarians used to be fairly easy to determine, but no longer in our era of nips, tucks, Botox, and hair coloring. You can’t just come out and ask someone his or her age. We all know that in today’s world such a question is not
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By Will Manley
12 hours 55 min ago
Two original Pennsylvania charters are slated for display beginning February 27 at the University of Pittsburgh's (UP) Hillman Library, part of the school's 225th anniversary comm
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I was never any good at science, whether it was dissecting a frog or—God help me—completing a science-fair project. My personal nadir came on a chemistry exam in high school. I like to think my score of eight points out of a possible 100 remains,
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By Bill Ott
17 hours 8 min ago
Indianapolis District 11 City-County Councilor Steve Talley (right) joins Mayor Greg Ballard at the February 21 announcement that he will use a major share of his current and future council salary&n
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Stratford (Conn.) Public Library Teen Librarian Lucretia Duwel (far left) joins some of the winners of the annual Black History Month Essay/Art Contest during an event in their honor that drew more than 125 students, parents, and guests to
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Award-winning actor and author Hill Harper (third from left) is the 2012 recipient of the $7,000 Sankofa Freedom Award, presented by Tulsa City–County (Okla.) Library’s African American Resource Center and the Tulsa Library Trus
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The second national Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, “Gathering at the Waters: Celebrating Stories, Embracing Communities,” takes place September 19–23 in Kansas City, Missouri, a joint effort of ALA’s five ethnic
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The Pleasanton (Calif.) Public Library is a 30,000-square-foot, single-story building that serves just under a million visitors annually. It features multiple skylights and large windows that supply an abundance of natural light. However, a
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GoodSemester has recently launched a cloud-based open learning platform. GoodSemester urges users to share course content to facilitate collaboration and the acceleration of learning through access to an open repository of information from
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