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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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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Although the disaster of 6 th February 2023 produced, in fact, stronger shaking than this, it should not have caused 5,500 large buildings to collapse. Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. the 'violent' level. [2] Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

African Americans and Latinos are more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases caused by air pollution, because they are more likely to live near sources of pollution, such as highways and industrial facilities (American Lung Association, 2023). in 2011-2015 and 0.09 in the period 2006-2010. percent decline in exposure.

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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. Final drafts will be due by Friday, April 28, 2023. Jacobson for Rowman & Littlefield. We will make our decisions by early September. References ACRL Association of College and Research Libraries. link] Mackey, T.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Department of Health and Human Services’ 2023 federal poverty guidelines are available on this website. 594, 607 (2011). 122, 137–38 (2015) (internal citations, quotation marks, and punctuation omitted). 122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C.

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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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