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Library Journal highlighted Chicago Public Library Commissioner Chris Brown's speech to the City Club of Chicago on September 29, 2022. He was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2016 and has received the Urban Libraries Council Top Innovator Award....
The Urban Libraries Council's report was cited by West Valley View to argue for the essential value libraries bring to childhood education. ULC's research shows that the literacy programs offered by libraries correspond to higher test scores and improved school readiness....
In an open letter from Urban Libraries Council's Board Member Mary J. Lomax-Ghirarduzzi, she points the reader to ULC's Trigger Terms: Harmful Detours and Healing Redirects resource....
The Urban Libraries Council's Trigger Terms: Harmful Detours and Healing Redirects was mentioned in the Public Libraries Association's 2021 Survey. ...
Digital Public Library Association's Board of Directors elected Felton Thomas, Jr., executive director and CEO of Cleveland Public Library, as its new chair, which will extend through June 2025. During his tenure, Cleveland Public Library was named a Top Innovator by the Urban Libraries Council for ...
The Urban Libraries Council was mentioned in an article by the Institute of Museum and Library Services exploring Technology and Digital Equity Manager at Salt Lake City Public Library Shauna Edson's role in promoting digital equity. Edson collaborated with the National Digital Inclusion Alliance an...
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly has announced the appointment of Esai Navarro as the inaugural Director of the City’s Office of New Americans. Among her many accomplishments, Navarro created the award-winning Uno X Uno Immigrant Youth Library Program, one of the Urban Library Council's Innovative Initia...
Sally Frasier, a longtime Tulsa library commissioner, community volunteer and Democratic Party activist, passed away on August 21, 2022. Sally Frasier worked on the Urban Libraries Council Executive Board, on which she served from 1990-99, served as an American Library Association task force and ser...
Witchita Public Library permanently eliminated their fees. Included is a link to ULC's Fine Free Mapto show the other library systems across the nation that have dropped their fines....
Urban Libraries Council was included in an event about design thinking, which provides learners a method for moving to action or scaling up quickly but strategically....
