A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management.

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Super Library Marketing

JULY 11, 2022

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. But in learning about my newfound status, I start to think about how libraries market to senior citizens. That accounts for about 16.5 They’re more likely to volunteer their time. Census Bureau. percent of the nation’s total population.

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Librarian.net

JULY 10, 2021

I always write up a report for the Vermont Library Association, the group that pays for my membership and which would be paying for my travel and registration. You can read more about this program at this website. American Libraries has done some good summaries of all three Council meetings at these links. I mostly like it.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This content can range from smartphone-recorded testimonials about your organization to highly produced marketing content, and everything in between. In this blog post, I’ll talk about the Video on Demand on AWS solution from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It then stores the transcoded media files and delivers them to your viewers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The vendors kept whining about how residents couldn't drive and park, how supermarkets have free parking, etc. Eastern Market, from the 600 block of C Street SE. Flickr photo by MrTinMD. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

AWS supports important resources for US citizens to register to vote; plus, government technology companies (GovTechs) use AWS to expand voting resources to Americans across the country. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote. When is the election?,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

For example, nonprofit healthcare providers often need to provide their members with information about how to make the most of healthcare benefits such as Medicare and Medicaid. About Amazon IVS AWS built Amazon IVS using the same technology that powers the popular live-streaming platform Twitch.

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Super Library Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library This is the fourth installment in the 2024 series of social media guides for libraries. YouTube for Libraries YouTube remains the third most popular social media platform for libraries, according to the 2023 Super Library Marketing Survey. Stay tuned!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Mike Paulus had a career path like many library marketers I know. Phillips Memorial Public Library in marketing and digital systems. “My They also do a good chunk of the library’s event programming, managing all adult events that use outside presenters.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 5, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library On a mild night in April 2019, I arrived at a steak restaurant in Schaumburg Township, Illinois to have dinner with a group of people I’d never met. I had been invited to speak at an event put on by the Illinois Library Association. Sue is a lot of fun.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

These steps are the result of close coordination with commercial and government customers, and with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about the types of security log data Microsoft provides to cloud customers for insight and analysis.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 13, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Tamara Murray moved around a lot as a kid. She’s lived there ever since and now works for the library she used as a youngster. I still remember the glorious sense of freedom I had on that warm spring day, driving down the road towards the library.”

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Promoting your library can feel a lot like feeding a very hungry, very demanding giant. You want your community to know that your library is the source of rich and valuable information. Now, I know this sounds counter-intuitive to promoting your library.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Nonprofits around the world use cloud technology to improve operational efficiencies, optimize costs, and advance their missions. The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program works with TechSoup to provide 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations such as charities, libraries, and museums across the globe with access to AWS Promotional Credit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

In 2020, Meta introduced the Daylight Map Distribution , which combines OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with quality and consistency checks from Daylight mapping partners to create a no-cost, stable, and simple-to-use global map. Collectively, these features are the product of more than 1.8 million individual contributors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc.--should It's an interesting book.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The content will be most relevant to US-based academics. However, many of the principles will also apply to researchers based outside of the US as well as to nonprofits. In this post, we share what we’ve learned about finding research funding based on our experience working with faculty at US-based universities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 15, 2024

One of these "months" I will probably finish and publish my entry on "national service" as a way to rebuild the foundations of democracy in the US. Martin Luther King Day is being positioned as a Day of Service, which I think is great, but in much of the country the weather isn't very supportive in the middle of January.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

Volunteers planting a tree in 2018. But the federal government doesn't deal with rehabilitation of local parks or planting trees--well, the US Forest Service just provided to a lot of communities grants to do just that, " Announcing urban and community forestry funding "--and similarly supra localized projects. Getty Images photo.

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