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Library Group Launches Accessibility Grant Program 

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“It started off as a need to shift public discourse away from libraries as institutions in crisis and as a way for us to facilitate them as agents of change,” said Samantha Oakley, project director in ALA’s public programs office. Among the recipients are a library in Bessemer, Penn.,

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Here Come the Drones: Industry Groups Talk Up FAA’s Unmanned Device Tests

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Among the picks was a trio of schools—University of Alaska, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Virginia Tech— as well as the state of Nevada, Griffiss International Airport in New York state, and the North Dakota Department of Commerce.