The Collection All Around by Jeffrey T. Davis

Author:Jeffrey T. Davis [Davis, Jeffrey T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LAN025000 Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General
Publisher: American Library Association

The Room Where It Happens (Door’s Open)

Librarians don’t typically have much background in neighborhood land use. It’s a big, specialized field and is the domain of planners, architects, engineers, and designers. Like any specialized field, it has a daunting atmosphere of opaque language and casually employed acronyms. Ministerial review, easement, level of service, form-based code, BIDs, FARs, EIRs, and VMT, anyone?

It won’t be an area of expertise for most librarians but needn’t be and, in any case, some comfort with the subject is easy to achieve. A first step is getting some exposure to the field. If you’re lucky, there may be advocacy groups in your area that train on the process. The organization Circulate San Diego, for example, produces training material on the planning process and how to get involved in local government. It has led “Join Your Community Planning Group” training workshops for citizens interested in participating, including one hosted at the Linda Vista branch of San Diego Public Library in 2017. See if you can find a similar one to attend or bring to your library. Kathleen Ferrier, director of advocacy for Circulate San Diego, described the workshop:

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.