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City Colleges of Chicago drives tech program innovation with AWS Machine Learning University and Tech Alliance

AWS Public Sector Blog

Summary City Colleges of Chicago (CCC)—the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation—participates in two no-cost Amazon Web Services (AWS) initiatives to advance and develop undergraduate technical programs. Hundreds of CCC students have already benefited from the Tech Alliance.

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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot to Open the 2022 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference

Center for Community Progress

Kendi as the opening plenary speaker at the biennial Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference (RVP), held this year in Chicago, Illinois from September 7-9. Chicago Mayor Lori E. Her Folded Map Project brings Chicagoans together by connecting “map twins”—residents who live at corresponding addresses on opposite sides of Chicago (e.g.,

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And That’s a Wrap! RSA Public Sector Day 2021 Recap

CarahCast

In this special condensed podcast, Bruce Coffing, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the City of Chicago, and Chris Covino, Policy Director for Cybersecurity for the City of Los Angeles, will summarize the insightful thoughts from the Local Government Track at RSA Public Sector Day 2021.

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CFP: Creative Ideas in Technical Services IG - ALA Core Virtual IG Week (March 10, 2023)

A Library Writer's Blog

Your proposal email should include: Presentation title A short summary of your topic (less than 150 words) for your 20 minute presentation Name, affiliation and email addresses of each speaker More about the CITSIG Virtual Session! Selections will be communicated by Monday, February 13, 2023.

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

See past blog entries: -- " Pathetic not revelatory: Quality of bus stop study in San Francisco ," 2021 -- " Bus shelters as social spaces, as potential vectors for virus: Seoul's new anti-covid bus shelter ," 2020 Project for Public Spaces has a report on the topic, Destination Station: Transforming Bus Stops through Community Outreach.

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Planning for heat/climate change | Public health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post has three articles today on the topic: -- " U.K. But misters probably should be deployed more widely as a matter of public space management. braces for record temperatures as ‘heat apocalypse’ hits Europe."

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Effective Library Internal Communication Is Not Impossible! Libraries Share Tips for Keeping Staff Up to Date, Engaged, and Happy

Super Library Marketing

I asked them questions about how helpful they were, whether they were relevant to their jobs, which topics they wanted me to focus on, the frequency and length of the emails, and more.” Cindy Starks is the Communications Coordinator for Coal City Public Library District , a small library southwest of Chicago, Illinois.