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Crime Victim Services
The OVC Online Directory of Crime Victim Services features new enhancements. Visit the Directory to search nearly 11,000 programs and take advantage of downloadable search...Topics- General
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Law Enforcement Responses to the Mentally Ill
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...Topics- General
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Community Policing Dispatch, November 2008
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...Topics- General
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Haunted Libraries
“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...Topics- General
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German Libraries Hold Thousands of Looted Volumes Stolen by Nazis
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...Topics- General
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Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released
“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,...Topics- General
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Modern Cabinet of Curiosities Stuns the Eye and Mind
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...Topics- General
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Park Your Car In A Good Book
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...Topics- General
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World’s Largest Monastery Library Restored To Baroque Splendour
“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...Topics- General
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Why the Shakespeare Folio is the World’s Worst Stolen Treasure
“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...Topics- General