Legislators, give libraries their due in new budget: Thomas Suddes
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The Lee Road branch of the Heights Libraries at 2345 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights. Ohio libraries, including the Heights Library system, consistently rank at or near the top of national rankings, benefiting all Ohioans. Which is why Ohio lawmakers should not pare back state support for libraries in the upcoming two-year budget, writes Thomas Suddes in his column today.
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If you’re an Ohioan who loves his or her public library, here’s a critical heads-up: Ohio’s proposed two-year budget, pending in the Senate, would cut state aid to Ohio’s libraries which are among the nation’s very best.
Libraries Are Essential
Opening Remarks, with Cohosts Andrew Richard Albanese and Sari Feldman
PW senior writer
Andrew Richard Albanese leads the magazine’s library coverage. Albanese has covered the publishing and information technology fields for more than 21 years and is a former associate editor of American history at Oxford University Press, a former editor at
Library Journal, and author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-book Business Overnight.
PW columnist
Sari Feldman is the former executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Cleveland and a past president of both the Public Library Association (2009–2010) and the American Library Association (2015–2016). She is currently an ALA policy fellow focusing on digital library policy.
Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller by Indridason, Arnaldur at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0312340702 - ISBN 13: 9780312340704 - St. Martin's Minotaur - 2005 - Hardcover
In this acclaimed memoir, Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his journey to manhood during the 1970s and 1980s. He traces his personal evolution from child to soldier forced at the age of eighteen to join a guerrilla army. And he describes the hardships that consumed Ethiopia after the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise to power of the communist junta, in whose terror thousands of Ethiopians died. Part autobiography and part social history,
Notes from the Hyena s Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the defining and turbulent years of the last century.
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The well-regarded historian Niall Ferguson is our guest; his many books include Civilization, The Great Degeneration, and The Ascent of Money. He joins us to discuss his newest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, which seems especially timely in the wake of the
annus horribilis that was 2020. Ferguson s book sets out to show why human beings are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters despite advancements in medicine, science, technology, etc. As noted of a starred review of this work in Library Journal: [This book] is well-researched, well-argued, and all-encompassing. Ferguson uses the depth and breadth of his knowledge to cogently argue for a new understanding of catastrophic events.. Reminiscent of William H. McNeill s Plagues and Peoples, [ Doom ] is a much-needed book on an important and pressing subject. Ferguson provides ample support for his arguments, uses an interdisciplinary approach, and offers new insights and r