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...
by dbs | Jul 11, 2022 | Homelessness
Nearly two decades ago, California voters passed a landmark tax on millionaires envisioned as a game changer for mental health. “No one who is mentally ill and now on the street will be on the street in five years,” promised the late Rusty Selix, who was executive...
by dbs | May 11, 2022 | Homelessness
Lorenzo Johnson has a Batman watch and a methamphetamine addiction. He has a pair of Vans and a schizophrenia diagnosis, a prison record and a niece named Jameelah Jones, who lives alongside him here in a small patch of shared squalor. Read or listen to the story at...
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