Sharks Foundation Refreshes Elementary School Library as Part of the Goals for Kids Program

LEAD Elementary School Librarian Shannon McGovern said, “The [kids] are so excited about getting all of the new books, they’ve been talking about it since the first day I told them.”

More than 40 volunteers from Team Teal and SAP joined nonprofit Access Books Bay Area to refurbish the library at LEAD Elementary school in San Mateo. Volunteers prepared 1,170 books by stamping, alphabetizing, applying bar codes, wrapping, and shelving them.

 

Educators Fear Their Homeless Students Could Become a Target for Trump Cuts

“At some point in the school year, roughly 1.4 million students are homeless. Federal law provides extra help to make sure they get an education. That law is overseen by the U.S. Education Department, which the Trump administration wants to close.”

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How New Hampshire Libraries are Bracing for Potential Funding Cuts

“The state of New Hampshire gets funding from the federal government, which is administered through the State Library. The most impact that we will see with a lack of funding is the elimination of the Talking Books Program, which is the way that sight impaired people are able to take in materials. It would also eliminate the interlibrary loan service and also the platform of Libby, by which our patrons throughout the state of New Hampshire are able to download electronic and digital information.”

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Office of Community Planning and Development, within the Department of Housing and Urban Development to lose 84% of its Staff

The Community Planning and Development office at HUD disburses more than $3.6 billion in federal funding for rental assistance, mental health and substance use treatment, and outreach to try and get those living outside into shelter or housing.

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New Photography Exhibit at Central Library Highlights Mementos of Those Living on the Streets

“It is not the homeless person that needs to be humanized,” Lommasson said. “It is us. One thing I’ve learned from this project is that any of us, if one or two circumstances changed in our lives, we could be unhoused. There’s a whole list of factors why people are homeless.”

The Collins Gallery at the Central Library in downtown Portland will host the photo exhibition “what i carry” until March 15. (Photo by Ellen Clarke)

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