I am writing this from the University of Houston Downtown’s Center for Public Deliberation training for new moderators. For the past two months, I have been working with Windy Lawrence and Tom Workman, the co-directors of this new endeavor. We are finally doing our first training session for moderators in Houston. We have 25 participants [...]
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[cross posted from http://www.austin-pacific.com/2007/05/managing-organizational-change-in.html
I am attending a conference called LOEX. This is a group of library instructors and the theme “Uncharted Waters: Tapping the Depths of Our Community to Enhance Learning” was perfectly aligned with my interests in libraries and community engagement.
The 11:15 - 12:15 time slot on the LOEX Conference Schedule in San [...]
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Posted in Libraries on February 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Patty Dineen, an NIF colleague and fellow blogger on the deliberative-democracy.net blog recently posted a thought-provoking essay about how two recent NY Times articles led her to issue a charge to America’s Libraries. One article noted how procedural two-stepping (not Patty’s term, but I “Texified” it for my Austin readers) had stymied the Senate’s ability [...]
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Perhaps because I am still considering the loss of Cole Campbell, a visionary civic journalist, Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Nevada and an extraordinary human being…perhaps it is because earlier this week I spent six hours developing a citizen journalism program at my kitchen table with Marla Crockett, veteran public [...]
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Posted in Libraries on January 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Sarah Long, American Library Association President (1999-2000) and North Suburban Library System Director recorded an interview with Joanne Griffin, Reference Librarian at the Des Plaines Public Library in Des Plaines, IL about their Building Community through Creative Communications grant. This Library Services and Technology grant funded Des Plains Library and other community organizations to conduct [...]
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Posted in Libraries on October 22, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Congratulations to our partners at the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas
on the successful publication of the
Voting Made Simple guide!
This non-partisan voter’s guide was developed with the help of Central Texas Adult Literacy Students. In eight tabloid-sized pages printed on high quality newsprint with soft purple accents, this elegant, but simply worded guide provides a [...]
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Posted in Libraries on October 20, 2006 | No Comments »
[Well, this isn't quite a Texas Forums announcement, but I don't have a personal blog so I'll just stick it in here. I won't even try to figure out the connection...]
The UPS man just delivered the long-delayed book “Public Library Internships: Advice from the Field” edited by Cindy Mediavilla.
In Chapter 14, “Literacy Internships: Take a [...]
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