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Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Strategies for Effective Law Enforcement Training” describes the challenges experienced by several jurisdictions that developed training for officers...

The November “Community Policing Dispatch” (CPD) issue features articles on how combat deployments can affect police officers returning to work, how 311 helped Minneapolis manage...

“Last year about this time (just in time for Halloween), George Eberhart of the American Library Association posted on this blog a list of libraries that...

Hundreds of thousands of books stolen by the Nazis are still in German libraries. A few librarians are acting like detectives, searching for the books...

“Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image,...

Jay Walker, 52-year-old founder of the Internet think-tank Walker Digital (known for Priceline.com), has built a library celebrating human imagination. Books and artifacts from a...

Downtown Kansas City Library Garage, Kansas City, Missouri New 152,864 SF, 485-car garage adjacent to the recently renovated downtown Kansas City library. An exterior treatment creates...

“Hidden in the Austrian Alps some 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of Vienna, Admont’s Benedictine monastery, which was founded in 1074 and spreads over 270...

“The 230 surviving First Folios are now the most minutely studied published works in history. The folio is unusual in that two centuries of records...

“Scholars of the 20th-century writer Franz Kafka were in a state of suspense last night at the news that the remains of his estate, which...