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How pets healed us this year – The Washington Post
In Your Own Words Each week, we highlight a comment from our readers. This week, my favorite comment was on a story I wrote about how pets healed us this year. “ My beautiful mom and greyhound died last year 3 weeks apart in the fall, both tragically and unexpectedly. This past July, I adopted…
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Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps – Teaching with the Library
Teaching with the Library Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators ISSN 2691-6916, Share & Subscribe to this blog Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps November 18, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith, Share this post… Teaching the concept of community to elementary students often emphasizes a local community that students are members…
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Opinion | Rail trails offer space to reconnect with community – The Washington Post
Opinion Meet us on the rail trail A place to gather as Americans, not partisans.The Island Line Trail on the Burlington, Vermont, waterfront, which Howard Dean played a role in creating. (Courtesy From Rails to Trails Film, LLC) By Tommy Thompson and Howard Dean – Tommy Thompson, a Republican, is a former governor of Wisconsin. Howard…
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Community: People and Places – A New Primary Source Set for Educators | Teaching with the Library
Teaching with the Library Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators ISSN 2691-6916 Share & Subscribe to this blog Community: People and Places – A New Primary Source Set for Educators September 23, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith …Share this post… What is a community? What makes a community? Generating and investigating questions about communities —…
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LibGuides Community
Search for LibGuides content and librarian authors, and find great examples of guides from our worldwide user community. 827,621 total guides214,314 librarians5,695 institutions100 countries So, you don’t know where to begin to find out more about X, bookmark LibGuides Community, and search about your topic. Many are from academic institutions, public libraries, and many topics…
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13 Reasons Why Libraries are Holding Us All Together | Read It Forward
Tiffany King, author of Eat at Home Tonight, argues why libraries are relevant, why they matter, and how these unsung heroes hold communities together. Source: 13 Reasons Why Libraries are Holding Us All Together | Read It Forward
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How public libraries help build healthy communities | Brookings Institution
Marcela Cabello and Stuart Butler examine the important role libraries play in communities. “They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Increasingly in the United States, you also can’t judge a library’s value to its community by simply its books. Let us explain.” Source: How public libraries help build healthy communities |…
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Article: A New Vocabulary for American Towns
A New Vocabulary for American Towns http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/new-american-vocabulary/383011/
