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With inflation at a four-decade high and many households looking to cut down their budgets, local libraries want to remind people they can help.
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The Regional Asset District board voted to move $5 million from reserves to a new fund that could be a carrot for cooperation between libraries.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: Amy Wildermuth — the dean of the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law, and a former U.S. Supreme Court clerk — shares her thoughts on the leaked draft of an opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade; a Philadelphia-based research group has found the state is in need of teachers of color, and we ask Duquesne’s School of Education dean how they’re attracting students of color to take on the profession; and a look at inequities in how libraries are funded.
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Libraries including the Carnegie Library say the policy increases usage and doesn't hurt return rates or budgets.
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Allegheny County received roughly $3 million in funds from the state to support parole and probation services for adults, potentially improving the system to reduce recidivism; libraries across the state are thinking about how to carry forward new digital services as they open again; and an athlete from Irwin will compete in this year’s Paralympics in Tokyo in goalball.
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Five Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh locations will begin curbside pickup service June 23: Allegheny, Brookline, East Liberty, Hill District and Oakland.…
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One of the area’s largest and most stable sources of funding for libraries, parks and arts groups is cutting about $20 million in grants this year due to…
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Butler County librarians are lending books the old-fashioned way—by tracking loans and due dates on paper—after a ransomware attack froze them out of…
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When Andrew Carnegie dedicated his first library in the United States, on March 30, 1889, he couldn’t have foreseen all the twists that lay in its future…
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People in the justice system often rely on law libraries for information, especially if they can’t afford an attorney. Sometimes those situations are…