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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

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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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

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.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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How Xavier University of Louisiana’s migration to AWS is creating a “technology renaissance”

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2022, XULA’s chief information officer (CIO), Dr. Mable Moore, launched XULA’s journey to future-proofing the university with the cloud. The university IT infrastructure had not been updated or improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When I first arrived in 2019, the IT infrastructure had been neglected,” says Moore.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. To find out more about HGS within the UK Public Sector market, visit: [link]. Please note: This is a commercial profile. This work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

5 From 2014 through 2019, however, the average G-fee increasingly became based upon a well-established financial markets concept: 6 to generate, after covering expenses, a proper market return (also known as the “cost of capital”) on the capital that is required to support the risks being taken in the business.

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