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• 26 Powerful Ideas from Community Informatics at Illinois 

  Williams, Kate (University of Illinois GSLIS, 2010-11)

  Summarizes concepts from the core course LIS 518 Community Informatics

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• An English-Language Bibliography of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign 

  Samuel, Noah Oluwafemi; Williams, Kate (2016)

  Speaking at the United Nations in 1960, Fidel Castro declared that Cuba would become in one year “a territory free of illiteracy.” And in 1961 the island nation mobilized in a massive and successful literacy campaign, led ...

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• Seniors in the Digital Age and Those Who Serve Them: 10 Lessons from a Doctoral Dissertation 

  Lenstra, Noah (2016)

  This month the Community Informatics Research Lab graduated its first University of Illinois PhD student. Others have completed their PhDs in China after just one year in the lab, but Noah Lenstra was part of the lab for ...

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• Letter to the community: A Community Benefit Fund for Champaign-Urbana 

  Alkalimat, Abdul (2012)

  UC2B, the Urbana Champaign Big Broadband project, plans to help our community more than just putting pipes in the ground or to our houses. We passed a community benefit fund resolution. Here are excerpts: A POLICY TO ...

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• Webliography of African-American Champaign-Urbana 

  Lenstra, Noah; Carpenter, Jaime; Saadiq, Jelani; Murphy, Deidre; Johnson, Dominique; Harmon, Rachel; Carr, Reginald; Alkalimat, Abdul (2010)

  This Lab Note reflects one part of a year-long project called eBlackChampaign-Urbana. Our interest here is to provide better access to the dispersed documentation of local African-American history and culture in Champaign-Urbana, ...

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