Librarian.net
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.
Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.
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Librarian.net
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Since the MetroCable system was built in 2004 and the library in 2007, things have changed, Palomino says. The police wouldn't even dare come," he says, lounging under a leafy tree next to the España Library with a small group of secondary school students, lulled by the steady hum of cable cars and the heat of the day.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
Today, the city hosts more narrow, multi-story townhouses, which provide homeownership opportunities in tight spaces, according to the paper “ Here Come the Tall, Skinny Townhouses: Assessing Single-Family to Townhouse Redevelopment, 2007-2020 ,” by Jake Wegmann, Aabiya Noman Baqai, and Josh Conrad of the University of Texas at Austin.
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020. The Guardian , 25 August 2020 - and subsequent updates.
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