As he kicks off a year that could see him jailed or booted from City Hall, and quite possibly both, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday laid out an agenda for 2025 that doubled as a platform for his uphill re-election campaign.In his fourth State of the City address, Adams laid out plans that respond to the issues that have defined his first term: public safety and New York’s affordability crisis, which has taken a particular toll on families. The mayor announced a new proposal, City of Yes for Families, that will use zoning and rule changes to construct more family-sized homes and build more housing near schools, playgrounds, libraries and grocery stores — all in hopes of preventing families from being forced to decamp to the suburbs.As part of the same initiative, Adams set a sparsely defined goal of building 100,000 new homes in Manhattan over 10 years — a dramatic jump from the borough’s current total of about 900,000, which will rely in part on the pending rezoning of Midtown South that promises nearly 10,000 units.And, acknowledging the recent spate of subway violence that has unsettled the city, the mayor pledged to spend $650 million to address homelessness and mental health — including opening a new facility to treat unhoused people with serious mental illnesses and creating 900 new beds in Safe Haven shelters that have low thresholds for admission.“Our city must go further to get you the health care and housing you need, the parks and playgrounds you deserve, the... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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The School Library Association says many of its members were furloughed and some have been made redundant but librarians have been more essential than ever Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-03 09:36:20 UTC ]
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Libraries and publishers have much to gain by taking a more collaborative approach in the way they work with each other Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The report, '2020 Public Library Technology Survey,' provides a current, detailed snapshot of how libraries serve as digital equity hubs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Children’s Laureate gives an update on her Life-changing Libraries campaign to fund primary school libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-03 01:55:45 UTC ]
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Zoey Dixon, named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2020, has been a leading light in making libraries more accessible, both before and during Covid, in her development role at Lambeth Libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Charity Libraries Unlimited, which aims to bring libraries’ work to new audiences, has come up with an innovative way to reach potential readers at libraries across Devon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. Continue reading at New Yorker
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From school libraries to big city libraries and small town ones, this is one Rioter's journey through the important libraries of her life. Continue reading at Book Riot
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A new public library strategy for Scotland has been published, developed with the help of countries all over the world, including Denmark, Australia and the US, and seeking to make libraries key to helping people and their communities recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-24 05:25:24 UTC ]
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Cambridge has over 100 libraries, so here are some (subjective) recommendations for the best ones to start with. Continue reading at Book Riot
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A comic art festival based in Yorkshire is encouraging the public to donate new and used comic books to its organisation, which will then distribute copies to schools and libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-21 00:12:55 UTC ]
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Maryland's recently passed library e-book law will require any publisher offering to license "an electronic literary product" to consumers in the state to also offer to license the content to public libraries "on reasonable terms." The question now is: what are reasonable terms? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week, Apple previewed a number of updates meant to beef up child safety features on its devices. Among them: a new technology that can scan the photos on users’ devices in order to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Though the change was widely praised by some lawmakers and child... Continue reading at Engadget
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Fund some classroom libraries today on DonorsChoose with the help of a boost from the Gates Foundation. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Most libraries are named after men, but here are 7 U.S. libraries and collections named after women that are worth celebrating. Continue reading at Book Riot
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“Congress is getting the message that libraries of all kinds are key to the vitality of communities,” said ALA president Patty Wong in a statement. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The pandemic has prompted, among other things, a slew of relocations. Some of those relocations (ie. to your mom’s house) have proved, or will prove, temporary; others, encouraged by new work-from-home policies, may become permanent. Or maybe you’re one of those people who looked around at the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Niles-Maine Public Library in suburban Chicago is being destroyed from the inside by politically-conservative Board officials. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-07-15 10:40:00 UTC ]
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US-based book distribution service Baker & Taylor has announced it will be offering libraries a "diversity analysis tool" to help them discover, manage and report on diversity-related topics. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-08 00:26:16 UTC ]
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Powered by the wholesaler's collectionHQ technology, Baker & Taylor’s “Diversity Analysis” tool will help identify opportunities for libraries to evaluate their collections against industry-accepted diversity subjects. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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