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As a result of the advocacy by the Library Labor Management Committee to HR, and subsequent approval by the Ramsey County board of commissioners, the circulation positions of Library page and clerks have been reclassified with these new titles.
What is library assistant and senior library assistant?
The CEO of Align Consulting. She is a DEI consultant, strategist, & organizational change specialist with a consulting career that spans more than 20 years.
Who is Jen Billig?
Files saved in this location can be accessed, edited, and deleted by anyone from a library staff computer.
What is the shared X Drive?
Located in Egypt, this library was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. It is famously known for being burned though not destroyed by Julius Caesar in 48BC.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
Including MELSA, Minnesota has this many regional library systems.
What is 12?
She is the new Manager of Ramsey County.
Who is Ling Becker?
Seen, connected, supported, and proud are the four facets of this.
What is Belonging?
This database was previewed as coming soon in the "What's New in Databases" breakout session.
What is CR.org (Consumer Reports)?
This is the one genre James Patterson does NOT have a series in (yet).
What is romance?
Federally the U.S. recognizes 12 holidays such as Juneteenth & Labor Day. In Ramsey County employees are given all but two of these holidays paid time off.
What is Inauguration Day (Jan. 20, every 4 years) & Columbus Day (2nd Monday in Oct.)?
She is the new Executive Director of Ramsey County Library Friends.
Who is Melissa Nykanen?
These are two dimensions of Othering.
What is structural and interpersonal?
Expanding off of the August 2019 issue of the The New York Times Magazine, this 2021 anthology of essays and poetry compiled by Nikole Hannah-Jones will be read by the Anti-racist book club throughout the next year.
What is The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story?
Holding over 167 million items this library is known since 2018 as the largest public library in the United States and second-largest library in the world.
What is the Library of Congress?
Of the many library statistics available via Sharepoint and Openportal, 2023 saw this amount (in the millions) of library materials circulated systemwide.
What is 2.81M?
Ramsey County Library has had this number of several positive staffing changes since spring ISD of this year including promotions, transfer between branches & new hires.
What is 19?
First used in 1948 by Polish neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski, this concept refers to our brain's ability to rewire itself over time and new experiences.
What is neuroplasticity?
As part of the Reporting Racial discriminiation subcommittee of the cultural trannformation project, this will be the new component for reporting incidents of racial discrimination.
What is a Trustee?
According to the The Guinness Book of World Records, this book has sold 5-7 billion copies worldwide, with it being the estimated #1 sold book in the US of all time.
What is the Bible?
The current population of Ramsey County
What is 536,000?
Established in 1982, this week brings together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to read. It occurred from Sept. 22nd-28th this year.
What is Banned Books Week?
This theory of motivation, coined in 1943 by an American psychologist, posits that all humans require 5 categories of things in a certain order to achieve a fulfilled life. Example: Social Belonging.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Patrons now use to do this interface instead of OCLC’s FirstSearch to search a database created from the holdings of all of the MNLINK libraries
What is the VuFind interface?
ALA documented 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship in 2023, as well as 1,247 demands to censor library books, materials, and resources. With this book as number one.
What is Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe? (106 challenges for LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit)
In this decade of the 1900's, the Metropolitan Library Service Agency was created
What was the 1960's (1969)?