by dbs | Jul 31, 2022 | Homelessness
“The only way you’re going to remove the hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe, throughout our nation, millions of people … and help make our cities clean, safe and beautiful again,” Donald Trump said this week at a quasi-homecoming rally in D.C., “is to open up...
by dbs | Jul 31, 2022 | Banned-Books
Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war. Read the article in the New York Times. If you are blocked by a paywall, read about the DCPL free access to various databases and newspapers....
by dbs | Jul 29, 2022 | Misc-Articles, Uncategorized
At the start of the pandemic, teachers and librarians pleaded with a prominent nonprofit to make it easier for kids at home to check out books from its digital library. The organization, called the Internet Archive, agreed. While it traditionally lent out its more...
by dbs | Jul 14, 2022 | Activities, Misc-Articles
The Labs at DC Public Library are located at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library area now open for limited services. Checkout the labs (fabrication lab, memory lab, studio lab), calendar of events (August, scheduling page), and the great Fix-It DC Clinic...
by dbs | Jul 12, 2022 | Misc-Articles, Newsletters
Dear Friends of MLK, The DC Library system has been busy throughout COVID serving readers, learners and library users in myriad ways. Now, as things become normal-ish, the library schedule of programs is blooming wildly. There’s pretty much something for...
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