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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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2023 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

This new book will be published in fall 2023 for the Innovations in Information Literacy series edited by Trudi E. First drafts of the completed chapters (20-25 pages) will be due on Friday, December 2, 2022. Final drafts will be due by Friday, April 28, 2023. Jacobson for Rowman & Littlefield. American Library Association.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

When the land bank found the perfect property—a house at 13611 Kinsman Road—they negotiated to release a collateral lien on the house, rehabilitated it, and gifted the home to Gardner and the CCCC in 2015 to serve as their permanent headquarters. The condemned Carpenters Hall at Kinsman Road in 2011. On the corner of Kinsman and E.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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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

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). Celebrate Brooklyn is an annual free concert series at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park.

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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

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). Celebrate Brooklyn is an annual free concert series at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park.