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| May 17, 2018 |  Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality By Matt Enis The U.S. Senate today voted to keep net neutrality protections in place, using the powers of the Congressional Review Act to block the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) December 14 decision to overturn the Open Internet Order. |
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| SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS A PROQUEST COMPANY |
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| "As libraries undertake cutting-edge research and build platforms that are, in turn, building blocks for other innovations that reverberate through the public and private sectors, we think it is really critical to maintain the character of an open Internet." | | |
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 Chicago PL to Build Branch in Obama Center By Lisa Peet While the planned Barack Obama Presidential Center will not contain a traditional presidential library of physical archives, it will hold a branch of the Chicago Public Library. And rather than a presidential library’s usual patrons—researchers and scholars—the new branch will serve the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side. |
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 Trans Voices By LJ Reviews Despite its flaws, a work accessible for both scholars and readers interested in trans rights; a candid memoir that belongs on the shelves of all libraries; a thoughtful study centering the lives and experiences of trans men in the millennial cohort. |
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 Three Big Biographies | Nonfiction Previews, Nov. 2018 By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, and Churchill: Walking with Destiny. |
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 Honoring the Work of Tom Wolfe | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt The literary world remembers Tom Wolfe, new pages from Anne Frank’s diary are revealed, Three Percent announces the Best Translated Book Awards finalists in fiction and poetry, and the O. Henry Prize stories are out. |
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| Goodell, Jeff
Little, Brown and Company
2017. ISBN 9780316260244. $28
2. A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
Wadhams, P.
Oxford University Press
2017. ISBN 9780190691158. $15.95
3. The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet—and Ourselves
Anthony, Leslie
Yale University Press
2017. ISBN 9780300208900. $30
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 Fund Your Library: Tools and Tactics for Getting to Yes! Whether you’re going to voters, city councils, school boards, college board of directors, or any other funder, the fundamental issues are the same: how do you convince the stewards of a limited budget that the library is their best investment? |
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