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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6 This is a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.98

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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.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020. The Guardian , 25 August 2020 - and subsequent updates. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. So where are its emergency planners?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Intriguingly, the proposal was for a double stacked tunnel, which would have allowed for express service too. Complementary transit network improvement program for NoVA.

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