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ULC was mentioned in a press release from the Office of Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) about the reintroduction a Resolution recognizing Banned Books Week and condemning the escalating attacks on books and freedom of expression in the United States.ULC President and CEO Brooks Rainwater was present...
ULC was mentioned in a press release from the American Library Association outlining programming and events for Banned Books Week 2023. Highlighted was ULC's partnership in The New Republic's Banned Books Tour 2023, a bookmobile tour supported by the American Federation of Teachers, the African Amer...
ULC President and CEO Brooks Rainwater recently connected with Business Insider to talk about how libraries are stepping up post-pandemic to address another major epidemic: loneliness."In many ways we see libraries as able to create that third space for people to work remotely, to come in and meet w...
ULC was mentioned in an article from the Chicago Defender about our involvement in the Book Rich Environments program: the Chicago Housing Authority has received 32,000 books, which have been distributed across CHA sites this summer. ...
ULC President and CEO Brooks Rainwater was quoted in a recent article from the Portland Press Herald about the importance of federal funding to public libraries....
The Urban Libraries Council was recently cited in an article on All Work about the rising trend of libraries as coworking centers. ...
ULC's recent Leadership Brief: Libraries as Cornerstones of Democracy was featured in an article from Information Today....
ULC and President & CEO Brooks Rainwater are featured in an article from The Washington Post about the resurgence of public libraries as co-working spaces. ULC member libraries DC Public Library, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, LA County Library and Boston Public Library are hig...
ULC's President and CEO Brooks Rainwater was quoted in a Governing article about Illinois' newest legislation to prohibit book bans. “It is heartening to see that the state of Illinois is taking legislative measures to protect the essential right of intellectual freedom,” said Brooks Rainwater, Pres...
Reimagining Civic Commons interviewed four thought leaders — including ULC President and CEO Brooks Rainwater — for their ideas about how to solve the nation’s downtown crisis and to illustrate the key role that public spaces could play in a downtown comeback....
