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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

New librarians may still feel their education has left them unprepared for teaching. Many librarians identify as teachers or educators as well as librarians, but may not consider themselves as teachers in the same way as faculty, and may not consistently define their work as teaching (Davis, Lundstrom, and Martin 2011).

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ā€™nā€™ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc.,

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School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Starting the transition planning process in January or February, once the decisions have been made on what schools to close, seems very late, too circumscribed in terms of time.

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The economic impact of AWSā€™s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

Iā€™m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested Ā„1.35 During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in Ā„1.31 An overview of AWS investments and economic impact in Japan from 2011 to 2022. In 2022, we invested Ā„348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

It will provide educators with innovative case studies for teaching digital storytelling to inspire learners as confident and creative producers of digital information. We would like to include chapters written by experienced practitioners from a variety of disciplines who teach digital storytelling, primarily in higher education.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. It also requires participation across the spectrum of agegroups, ethnicities, genders, educational levels, orientations, and so on.

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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

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. A good example is Bilbao. -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced?