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Uso del diseño colaborativo como método para atender mejor e involucrar a las comunidades Latinx de bajos ingresos
“I Feel Like I Can Create The Rules Of The World As I’m Writing It” — K-Ming Chang On The Stories in Her Phenomenal New Collection
New FYI Podcast Episode! Directors Dialogue
“That Little Brown Ball Saved My Life” — Ray Scott On His Compelling New Memoir and Groundbreaking Career in the NBA
Public Libraries Celebrate Juneteenth
GIS-Mapping Exchange Grant Program
Brave Communities – A Conversation with Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada
Free and Fresh Fridge
“Whatever Job You Give Me, I’ll Learn” — Natalie Jacobson Reflects on Her Illustrious Career in Television News
HOW TO Manage Fiction Series
New Podcast Episode! Celebrate National Voter Registration Day @ Your Library
Federal Broadband Funding Guidelines Now Available for States to Begin Planning, Applications
The Conversation Around Policing and Public Libraries
Beyond Yuck and Yum: Programming with Picture Books about Food
Policing and Social Justice in Libraries
Jennifer Close on How Politics, Pasta, and 90’s Cover Bands Informed Her Hilarious New Novel About a Family in Crisis
“I’m Always Writing in Extremity of My Life” — Sara Baume on Her Gorgeous and Poetic New Novel
Azar Nafisi on How Reading Is Crucial To Our Survival
“To Make Meaningful Long-Term Change We Have to Take a Systemic Approach To It”—Ruchika Tulshyan on Creating a More Inclusive Workplace
Jane Pek on Subverting Genre Tropes and the “What If” Scenario at the Heart of Her Ingenious New Mystery
Renée Branum on Buster Keaton, Giving Herself More Freedom, and Her Secret Shelf at the Library
Ravi Shankar on His Revelatory Memoir and The Embrace of The Totality of The Experience
“Memoir is a Strange Word When you Don’t Remember a Whole Lot” – Tim O’Brien on How Memory, History, and Literature Inform his Joyous New Book
“Anything That Strikes You As Very Different From Now Is A Very Good Place to Start” – Lynne Truss On Creating The Delightfully Funny World Of Constable Twitten
“My Process is Usually One of Necessity and Escaping Disaster” — Jeffrey Lewis On His Haunting New Novel
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