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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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The Clever yet Simple Trick One Library Marketer Uses To Remind Her Community of All Her Library Offers Every Day of the Year!

Super Library Marketing

″ x 11″ wall calendar. One of my all-time favorite pieces of library marketing came from the Invercargill (New Zealand) City Library back in 2017, which was 2 years before I became a library marketer! The calendar is a daily reminder that we are here for our neighbors.”

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa. To get from Miami to Orlando in 11 years is an incredible accomplishment.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. From face masks to Covid testing: 11 times the UK government has U-turned. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. The plans were not connected to anything.

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Commercial district activation issues in smaller communities: Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Park Silly Sunday Market, now in its 17th year, cut its operations down to just 11 Sundays on Main Street this year amid contract negotiations between the city and the market operators. Ritu Manoj Jethani, Shutterstock) Park City, Utah has some of the same issues. He said the bar was "completely empty" at 2 p.m.

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

Barrett & Greene

Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Officer, recalls a conversation with colleagues on the budget and finance side of Pittsburgh in 2017 “We were so excited about what we wanted to do, and they kept calling our projects ‘unicorn projects,’” recalls Ervin. But with goals in hand, city leaders had to find a way to fund them.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Research on Engineering Structures and Materials 7(1): 1-11. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Seismic performance of wide-beam infill-joist block RC frames in Turkey. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 29(1): 1-9. Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. Ozmen, H.B.

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