Tag Archives: politics
I voted yesterday
I got in line at 9:15 (having left work immediately after an early morning staff meeting) to cast my vote at the community center around the corner from my library. By that time, a long line of people, bundled-up but still shivering, was already ahead of me, wrapped around the front of the building and [...]
Planned Parenthood + Palin = Profit
From the New York Times, “Cashing in on a G.O.P. Star“:
As of Friday, Planned Parenthood had taken in $802,678 in donations from 31,313 people, said a spokesman for the organization, Tait Sye. More than two-thirds of the individuals are first-time donors to Planned Parenthood, Mr. Sye said, and money came in from all 50 states.
Ms. [...]
November fear
I’ve been doing my best to not comment about the upcoming November election. Thankfully, I have a coworker with a master’s in political science, who gave me some excellent political enlightenment today, and I have another coworker who is selflessly voting on behalf of his non-citizen wife. But I think a lot of the gravity [...]
“The Disconnected”
There’s a downright important article in this month’s Library Journal that everyone — and I mean everyone – should read: “The Disconnected: Who these 3.8 million people are, and why libraries need to help them”
From the article,
Ultimately, these factors create insuperable economic and social challenges for this group that we, as librarians, cannot ignore. Beyond [...]
Napoleon III and the public library
This is interesting. Rory Litwin at Library Juice shares a piece about the rise of (and resistance to) public libraries in France during the 1860s. I especially love the use of phrases like “hotbeds of propaganda and political intrigue” and “dangerous or subversive theories.” Kinda makes me wonder what Paul Boudet would [...]
ALA Report on Non-English Speakers
Serving Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries: 2007 Analysis of Library Demographics, Services, and Programs.
From the report’s executive summary,
About 21 million people in the United States speak limited or no English, 50 percent more than a decade ago. This impacts public agencies in health care and education the most but impacts other public agencies, [...]