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Leadership Publications
This Week at ULC
Closing the Entrepreneurship Gap: Tools for Libraries
Fair E-Book and E-Audiobook Lending for Libraries
Fine Free Map
Trigger Terms: Harmful Detours and Healing Redirects
ULC creates a variety of publications that disseminate cutting-edge knowledge and analysis on topics that are critical to the continued transformation of libraries as community change agents and problem solvers. ULC publications are intended to advance knowledge within and beyond the library community.
ULC Leadership Briefs
Our Leadership Briefs are four-page monographs that offer condensed analysis of critical issues driving library performance today.
Anti-Racist Executive Leadership for Public Libraries
Informed by the work and expert guidance of ULC's Anti-Racism action team, this Leadership Brief focuses on the power of self-aware and committed public library executives in ensuring racial justice, both within our institutions and in our communities. To guide library executives in taking next steps with this lifelong work, the brief provides suggested action strategies and examples of leading practices from ULC library executives.
ULC thanks Gale, a Cengage company, for their sponsor support of this Leadership Brief. Learn more at gale.com/equity.
Digital Equity in the Age of COVID-19
Informed by the work and expert guidance of ULC's Digital Equity action team, this Leadership Brief spotlights how the pandemic has both intensified the digital divide and created a window for action by raising the visibility of what it means to be unconnected in our hyper-connected world, especially for our most vulnerable residents. This Leadership Brief offers action strategies, key messages and background information to empower library leaders to take on a more active and intentional role in advancing digital equity.
Libraries Leading AI and Digital Citizenship
While AI promises to enhance our communities in remarkable ways, it also poses significant threats to the prosperity, privacy and security of individuals who do not understand or cannot access these new technologies. This Leadership Brief provides targeted strategies for North America's public libraries to ensure an equitable and inclusive future in the Age of AI.
Leadership Roles for Library Trustees
This Leadership Brief highlights the essential roles library trustees play in guiding, shaping and supporting the 21st century library. It focuses on how passionate and committed trustees help establish the library's place in the community, ensure that the library stays connected to changing community needs and interests and generate support for the library's long-term future.
Library-School Partnerships to Improve Reading Proficiency
This Leadership Brief examines the power of intentional library-school partnerships to improve reading proficiency among children most in need of assistance. It highlights how libraries are already helping low-income children become more proficient readers and offers action strategies for strengthening library-school partnerships to close the reading opportunity gap.
This Leadership Brief focuses on the public library's role as an essential resource for entrepreneurs and core component of local entrepreneurial ecosystems. It highlights the exciting work already underway in libraries to advance the entrepreneurial spirit and identifies seven strategies for library leaders to become more intentional about implementing programs that support local economic development goals and reach potential entrepreneurs most in need of guidance and encouragement.
Libraries Leading Civic Engagement
This Leadership Brief highlights the essential roles public libraries play in advancing civic engagement in the communities they serve. It identifies five leadership roles to help libraries broaden their impact as go-to resources for building a culture of informed, engaged and empowered residents and provides examples of how libraries are strengthening civic connections.
Partners Achieving Community Outcomes
This Leadership Brief explores how libraries can increase their impact by aligning library programs with city/county leader priorities to drive positive individual and community outcomes. It identifies six action strategies for library leaders to move toward greater community impacts.
Partners for Education
This Leadership Brief highlights the changing education landscape and the progressive work of public libraries to meet the diverse education needs in the communities they serve. It identifies seven action strategies for local elected and appointed officials to pursue with public libraries to improve education outcomes.
Libraries Expanding Summer Opportunities
This Leadership Brief focuses on the progressive work of public libraries in providing summer learning programs that develop students' skills while maintaining the flexibility of active learning that is unique to the library experience. It builds on the findings of the Accelerate Summer strategic partnership between the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) and the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Libraries Supporting Family Learning
With widespread recognition that traditional education systems alone cannot meet today's learning needs, libraries have emerged as powerful 21st-century education leaders. This Leadership Brief builds on the partnership between the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) and the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) to increase awareness of the role that libraries play in creating opportunities for families to learn together.
Building Connected Communities
Public libraries have established themselves as vital resources in a technology-driven world. This Leadership Brief highlights the role of libraries as community technology leaders who are uniquely qualified to bridge digital divides, support community priorities, and improve quality of life, working in close partnership with community leaders. It provides examples of how libraries are leveraging technology to deliver services that meet community needs and identifies six action strategies to achieve the best possible opportunities for the entire community.
Libraries Igniting Learning
Libraries are embracing a central role in education that is built around new modes of learning which are active, collaborative, interest driven, and participatory. This Brief examines how libraries can leverage their capacities, assets, connections and stature to ignite learning in the communities they serve. It offers six strategies to help libraries become more powerful learning institutions.
Maximizing the Library-Foundation Partnership
This Brief highlights the growing importance of library foundations and identifies critical leadership roles for foundations, executives and boards to maximize the library-foundation relationship.
Library Leaders Owning Leadership
This Brief identifies five leadership themes and five roles for library executives in the rapidly changing and increasingly complex public library environment. It provides food for thought to encourage and support individual action, increased self-awareness, and ultimately success in leading the continued transformation of libraries.
Library Priority: Community-Civic Engagement
How do you move libraries from supporting players to valued leaders in today's civic engagement space? This Brief identifies five leadership roles to help libraries broaden their impact as the go-to resource for building a culture of enlightened, engaged, and empowered citizens.
ULC White Papers
To equip public libraries to better demonstrate the role they play in supporting city and county officials' visions, the Urban Libraries Council has published a series of white papers, Libraries and Economic Opportunity, Libraries' Second Digital Transformation and Libraries, Trust and Social Capital. Incorporating benchmarking data from ULC members, these reports highlight how today's public libraries are already supporting many of their local governments' top priorities by investing in cutting-edge programs and resources.
Libraries and Economic Opportunity
This white paper explores how, since the Great Recession, libraries have become part of the community fabric for job search.
Libraries' Second Digital Transformation
This white paper explores howl libraries are leading a second digital transformation. The past decade and a half have seen libraries expand their missions in response to the information age, as they have provided computer and internet access for their communities, resources for digital skills and e-books. Today a new era of digital transformation is dawning for libraries as they become places for digital inclusion.
Libraries, Trust and Social Capital
Libraries are highly trusted institutions that cultivate social capital in the communities they serve. This white paper explores how public libraries help cultivate social capital — that is, the resources that help people connect to one another, their communities and find the information that helps them get by.
ULC Reports
ULC also publishes full-length reports that offer more in-depth knowledge and analysis.
Partners for Middle School STEM: Strategic Playbook
ULC's Partners for Middle School STEM Strategic Playbook guides library teams in building successful programs and cross-sector partnerships to advance inclusive and robust STEM learning environments for low-income middle school youth.
The Leaders Library Card Challenge: Strategic Guide
The Leaders Library Card Challenge Strategic Guide maps out how ULC and library leaders in over 100 communities have worked together to provide three million children their first library card.This guide provides a roadmap for successful collaboration, drawing on the experiences of participants in the Leaders Library Card Challenge. It recognizes that one size doesn't fit all communities, instead offering options for moving forward – with a constant eye on fighting the good fight for our children. We hope this guide will expand this important work to many more communities.
Libraries at the Center of Summer Learning and Fun
This online toolkit includes links to tools and materials gathered from libraries across North America that are implementing summer programs designed to engage participants in active skill building, creative exploration, and critical thinking — in addition to reading. This resource was developed in partnership with the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) as a part of the Accelerate Summer initiative supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Public Libraries and Effective Summer Learning: Opportunities for Assessment
This report discusses the diverse summer learning opportunities provided by public libraries and action steps for initiating assessment of their effectiveness. Working in partnership with the Metropolitan Group and the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA), this publication was developed as a result of ULC's National Forum on Effective Summer Learning in Libraries, an initiative supported by funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums: Transformative Spaces for Teens
This report is an excellent encapsulation of the mission of Learning Labs, the important community catalytic affect they have, and the exciting future that is in store for today's youth. This publications was produced as part of the Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums initiative, a partnership between ULC and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) with funding provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Civic Engagement: Stepping Up to the Civic Engagement Challenge
This report makes the case for public libraries as ideal civic engagement leaders. Based on current research, in-depth interviews and discussion highlights from ULC's 2011 Partners for Success convening, Stepping Up to the Civic Engagement Challenge is intended for a wide and varied audience of library, local government, business, civic and philanthropic leaders looking for sound ideas and effective strategies to advance the promise of citizens working together.
Partners for the Future: Public Libraries & Local Government Creating Sustainable Futures
This report details how a strategic and successful relationship between the public library and local government can be formed in order to accomplish sustainability for a community. The report focuses on the "triple bottom line" of sustainable development: economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, providing numerous examples of high-impact partnerships in specific communities.
Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development
This report examines how public libraries contribute to people, technology and the quality of life. Funding for this report was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
The Engaged Library: Chicago Stories of Community
This report highlights several Chicago public libraries and their efforts in strengthening the community and effectively enhancing the well-being and capacities of urban neighborhood residents, associations, non-profits and public institutions.


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Nurse departs BS3
Wednesday, July 28th 2021
The club wishes George Nurse all the best as he joins Shrewsbury Town on a permanent transfer.
The defender joins the League One outfit ahead of their 2021/22 campaign, which kicks off in just over a week's time.
Nurse came through City's Academy system and developed his game further with loans at Weston-super-Mare, Newport County and Walsall in recent seasons.
He had been part of City's pre-season, joining the group in Loughborough and featuring against Celtic, Portsmouth and MK Dons before completing the formalities of his move with Steve Cotterill's men.
Shrewsbury's season kicks off against Burton Albion on Saturday, August 7th (3pm KO).
George Nurse

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