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  • Uffizi Gallery's Vast Sculpture Collection Goes Online in Interactive 3D Scans

    August 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Venice

    A partnership between Venice’s Uffizi Gallery and Indiana University is providing new access to the Uffizi’s collection of ancient sculpture. The Uffizi Digitization Project provides a web interface for visitors to see the work in interactive three-dimension scans.

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  • Looking for Housing or Affordable Healthcare? Your Local Library Is Here to Help

    July 27, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Public libraries are hubs of information and increasingly of social support services. San Francisco Public Library was one of the first in the country to break out of the stacks to respond to local needs. Social worker Leah Esguerra has spent a decade there assisting homeless patrons. She says a public library is “a community living room where everyone is welcome.”

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  • New Yorkers Booked 9,500 Free Museum Tickets in Four Days, New Passes Arrive August 1

    July 20, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Culture Pass is a new program providing New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Library card holders with opportunities to visit New York City cultural institutions for free. In the first four days of the program, thousands of people utilized the program to obtain tickets.

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  • A Library Card Will Get You Into the Guggenheim (and 32 Other Places)

    July 16, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Through their library card, New York City residents can now receive free admission to over thirty prominent cultural institutions. The goal of this new program, named Culture Pass, is to designed to provide underserved populations with opportunities to utilize cultural offerings.

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  • Berlin's first Arabic-language public library aims to redefine refugee integration

    July 06, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    In Germany, where the political ramifications of more liberal refugee policies are becoming known, the city of Berlin has become home to an "Arabic-language literary and cultural center," housed in a public library. The center connects Arabic-speaking refugees and immigrants with resources, literature, and translators while also allowing non-Arabic speakers to experience the collection. The center also hosts a variety of conversations, both light-hearted and heavily political.

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  • Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives

    June 21, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    The Archivist In a Backpack kit developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill contains the essential elements for oral history collection including recorders, notepads, and thank you cards. The university is partnering with other organizations to distribute these kits and foster oral history gathering activities.

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  • Literacy push: L.A. libraries allow young people to read away their fines

    June 18, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After realizing that their system of fines for lost and late books was actually preventing kids and young people from reading more, L.A. libraries instituted a new program that's already showing results. The program, the Great Read Away, is an opportunity for kids to "read away" their fines, erasing $5 of the fine for each hour spent reading. "During the program’s first 11 months, young readers logged 1.6 million minutes of reading time, and 10,000 accounts were cleared completely of fines."

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  • Beyond Books: How Libraries Are the Latest Front in the Opioid Fight

    June 12, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Librarians across the nation are being trained to administer naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose. In Denver’s Central Library, 350 staff members were trained to administer the drug. “Libraries in New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Salt Lake County, Utah, among others, are also stocking the overdose reversal drug.”

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  • Getting books from the U.S. feeds these students' love of reading

    June 07, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    An organization called Books for Africa collects donations of books from all over the country to send to schools in Rwanda. Books for Africa has sent over 41 million books over the past 30 years to 53 different countries. Students at one of the schools receiving the books in Rwanda say they enjoy reading because it helps them improve their vocabulary and learn about American culture, but they also wish they could receive more books about Africa.

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  • Rescued by Books: Fostering Teen Literacy in Low-Income Communities

    May 05, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Review of Books |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Book Truck is a nonprofit that addresses the issue of "book deserts" in Los Angeles by providing free books and literacy programming to over 10,000 teenagers across the city. The truck was established in 2012 and has since handed out over 17,000 books. Participants in the program attest to how the program has changed their life because reading is now a tool to learn more about themselves and the world, to develop leadership skills, and to even make new friends.

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