A database of library materials. An online library catalog is an electronic bibliographic database that describes the books, videotapes, periodicals, etc. carried by a particular library. The online library catalog evolved from a printed source, the library card catalog. Before the advent of online catalogs, library catalogs were pieces of furniture that contained numerous small drawers. In these drawers were contained the records of particular items in the library.
The number of Pima County homeless youth whose parents have been deported rose 50 percent in one year, a nonprofit advocacy group reports. There are more than 4,000 homeless youth in Pima County, and last year about 4 percent of them were children of deportees, twice as many as the previous year, according to Youth On Their Own officials. A story by Arizona Public Media. Read story.
Statewide 115,738 Californians were counted as homeless. Of those counted, 73,699 people were unsheltered â by far the largest such population in the nation. This marks a disturbing reversal of the 2007â2015 trend, which had seen a 16.7 percent drop in the stateâs homeless population. The situation is particularly dire in Los Angeles. The metropolitan area witnessed a one-year increase of 11 percent, bringing its homeless population to 41,174 people â 7 percent of the nationâs homeless population. Los Angeles is not alone, however.