Book Club – Inside and Out

…range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts… (Search hits: 15 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 57.31)

Amendments Y and Z, Congressional and Legislative Redistricting

…Census, both sets are redrawn to ensure that all districts include equal numbers of people. Under the current system, the state legislature oversees the congressional redistricting, while the legislative districts… (Search hits: 7 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 57)

Reapportionment, Redistricting, and the Census

…population – are California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. All other states will retain their current number of seats. Before a new representative can be elected,… (Search hits: 7 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 57)

CVL Sites Redesigned

The State Library’s CVL Sites is a free service that creates and hosts websites for libraries, museums, and related organizations. Sites for Voice Preserve, and StoryBlocks were recently redesigned to… (Search hits: 5 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 90.11)

December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

…Influence of Drugs and Alcohol Traffic Stop Summary Enforcement Period Reports (DUI checkpoints) Colorado Drugged Driving Fact Sheet WEBSITES http://www.noduicolorado.org/ https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/alcohol-drugs https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/traffic-safety-statistics https://www.codot.gov/safety/alcohol-and-impaired-driving https://www.codot.gov/safety/impaired-driving/druggeddriving [added 3 June 2021; was https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/marijuana/driving-and-traveling]… (Search hits: 14 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 100.67)

OCR Correction Makes Our Shared History More Accessible to All

…poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts, or damaged pages may contribute to poor OCR accuracy. The effectiveness of OCR software has improved dramatically over the years,… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 52.3)

Broadband – Bag of Tricks

…step in leveling the playing field for job seekers, students, and life-long learners while also opening new doors to explorers, information seekers, travelers, and social media postulants in your community…. (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 27.29)

Where to start if you’re a technology beginner

…ins and outs of all this new stuff (computers, smartphones, tablets, and eReaders, to name a few). Maybe a part of you wishes this day didn’t have to come, and (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 36.81)

National Invasive Species Awareness Week

…that moves and will fit into their mouths including fishes, frogs, birds, bats, snakes, tarantulas, small mammals, and a variety of invertebrates. They out-compete and eat native amphibian species and (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 85.5)

A Trauma-Informed Lens: Communities, Libraries and Research

…the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.” Trauma can be experienced by anyone regardless of identities such as gender, age, race, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation…. (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 40.64)

Using Emojis in Social Media – Good or Bad for Accessibility

…XD for a laughing face, or O_O for surprise. Screen readers will not interpret emoticons, instead they will try to process them literally (e.g., “parenthesis, colon”). This is confusing for… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 1 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 51)

Legislative Redistricting

Today the new redistricting maps for the Colorado House and Senate were approved by the Colorado Reapportionment Commission. This happens every 10 years, following each census. There are some significant… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 51)

School Required Vaccines

…School Required Vaccines, which explains all you need to know about back-to-school vaccinations. Starting this year, parents who wish to exempt their children from vaccinations will need to fill out… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 51)

New Dates Added – Virtual Partner Forum Events – Register to Attend

…of our partner, downloadable/ printable resources for your own use, contact information, and ideas for how others have engaged with them before. These will be things you can use and (Search hits: 0 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 1 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 50)

Mastering Design and Accessibility with Pictograms (MLS Not Required)

…(also known as pictographs, pictorial charts, picture charts, or icon charts) use simple, small icons to display data in more memorable, meaningful ways. They can even increase the accessibility of… (Search hits: 0 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 50)

Colorado’s Governors: George Alfred Carlson

…private law office in Fort Collins soon after finishing his education. Carlson married his first wife, Rosa Lillian Alps, in 1906 and raised four children with her. After Rosa’s death… (Search hits: 0 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 50)

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Early Denver Dental School Featured in Medical History Collection

Andrews, Collection Development Technician, at paul.andrews@cuanschutz.edu, 303.724.2113.   If you would like to share your unique historic digital collections with the DPLA, please contact Leigh Jeremias at ljeremias@coloradovirtuallibrary.org or 303-335-0709…. (Search hits: 0 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 50)