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.
Scope of Homelessness Nationwide 1. On a single night in January 2016, there were 549,928 people experiencing homelessness in the United States; 68 percent sheltered and 32 percent unsheltered. One quarter (22 percent or 120,819) were children under the age of 18. Nine percent (50,001) were between the ages of 18 and 24.