Libraries

A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing, often in a quiet environment conducive to study. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, table games, video games and other formats. Libraries range widely in size up to millions of items. The word for "library" in …

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Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUS DATA BY STEPHANIE RUSSO CARROLL, DATA MARISA DUARTE, and MAX LIBOIRON SOVEREIGNTY SOVEREIGNTY Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 207 INDIGENOUS DATA SOVEREIGNTY By Stephanie Russo …

D. Littletree, “‘Let Me Tell You About Indian Libraries’: Self-Determination, Leadership, and Vision,”


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

While the concept of data publics is rooted in the western notion of publics as a counterweight to state practices, the Korean case illustrates how data publics can complement, and …

shiminch’amyŏ tan’gyee such as bars, cafés, restaurants, libraries, and more. The Korean government kwanhan yŏn’gu


More in Common · 21 April 2024 English

For all parties, culture wars offer a way to distract from scrutiny – about their record in the case of the Conservatives, and to deflect scrutiny from their plans for …

likely to eat out, visit museums or go to local libraries. They often have views on issues but tend to pay


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 18 April 2024 English

Thus, Influence Operations refer to the use of non-military means of psychological, technological, economic and political influence and subversion to undermine the security and governance of a targeted country. [...] …

Establishment of Press Centres and Cultural Centres x. Libraries and Information Resources Such activities focus


UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 18 April 2024 English

Young people represent a sizeable and vital population in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). For them, digital technologies are more than just tools; they are gateways to new horizons. Digital …

acquisition and capacity- building. From digital libraries to social media, digital has evolved into a multidisciplinary


The South Centre · 17 April 2024 English

Since co- are significantly reduced rather than increased through pyrights restrict access to knowledge (see below), an the creation of information monopolies.3 The stronger the important dimension of securing copyright’s …

resources and portals of knowledge resources (such as libraries). The Da- In each of the SDGs, there is “at least print-disabled persons.95 The implementa- institutions and libraries, archives & museums cannot be tion of these exceptions exceptional or challenging situations, such as the Libraries and other cultural institutions should be allo- impossible to obtain copyright to the public. Libraries can play a huge role in expanding licenses for people to engage in acts of digital technologies, libraries can empower people for that would otherwise require


CASE: Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion · 17 April 2024 English

(Tenant, Mile End) Resident engagement and capacity building Resident engagement has been established within the structures and organisation of EastendHomes from the very beginning due to the extensive consultation through …

way it is even in the Idea Store, which is the libraries for Tower Hamlets, so they could go there and


PILAR: Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar · 16 April 2024 Croatian

For the English and Scottish hooligans, the skinhead era was roughly up to 1983—84 and the casual era after that, with 1989 being the end of the initial heyday of …

only when further re- search in the archives and libraries of Vienna and Budapest more precisely determines


Roosevelt Institute · 16 April 2024 English

Focusing on corporate and public power, labor and wages, and the economics of race and gender inequality, the Roosevelt Institute unifies experts, invests in young leaders, and advances progressive policies …

for investment in social infrastructure like libraries, parks, and childcare centers (Klinenberg 2018)


Maine Policy Institute · 16 April 2024 English

Even so, it is fair to state that what has story of how politicians in Augusta began happened in Maine has much to do with the standardizing education with laws …

indicative — Sexually Explicit Books. Maine’s school libraries of exceptional performance, with some of Maine’s sexually over the presence of books in public school libraries explicit acts, some of which center around LGBTQ+ children celebrating LGBTQ+ placement in school libraries across Maine and activism and featuring transgender communities called “Building books in public school libraries sparked controversy Welcoming and Afirmative Communities “Rockland LGBTQ Organization Helping School Libraries to Shelve more Inclusive Books.” Bangor Daily


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