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Blackwater Regional Library system serves the counties of Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, and the city of Franklin in Virginia. The library system is within Region 3 of Virginia Library Association (VLA). [1] According to FY 2015 Statistical Data for Virginia Public Libraries, the Blackwater Regional Library serves a population of ...
Patrons can access such platforms as OverDrive, Hoopla, Freegal Music, Kanopy, Consumer Reports, LinkedIn Learning, Mango Languages and Westlaw. [13] Makerspaces are available for public use during regular library hours at the Brambleton, Gum Spring, Rust, and Sterling branches. [14]
Marta Lourdes Tellado [3] was born in Cuba. In 1961, at the age of two, Tellado and her family left Havana for the U.S. as political refugees. [4] [5]After completing an undergraduate degree in 1981 at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Tellado went to Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, a nonprofit group. [4]
PEN America, a free expression advocacy group, has tracked nearly 16,000 book ban attempts in public schools nationwide since 2021. In 2023 alone, the American Library Association (ALA) documented ...
VBPL has 11 locations including a joint-use library with a community college, a law library, and a bookmobile for early literacy outreach. The different library buildings range in size from the large 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) Central Library on busy Virginia Beach Boulevard to the much smaller Pungo-Blackwater Library attached to Creeds Elementary School on Princess Anne Road.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was defanged over the weekend by Trump administration appointees, after Russell Vought, the agency's acting chief, ordered the staff to halt work and tem
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act; Other short titles: Financial Literacy and Education Improvement Act: Long title: An Act to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes.
A Maryland funeral director was found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a pallbearer at a burial service for a 10-year-old girl, who herself had been shot to death.