Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–Exhibits
Source: St. Petersburg Times
Will Morrison exhibit light readers’ fire?
“The Clearwater Library, once a hangout for a young Jim Morrison, is considering a permanent Morrison exhibit.” (Ignore the brain-dead lead about Morrison as “a young man getting shushed a lot at the Clearwater Library.”).
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Data Quality
Source: Government Technology
MPI Report Shows Database Errors Plague Immigration Enforcement
“Thousands of times each year, police officers checking the name of an individual stopped or detained against records in the nation’s main criminal database have received an initial ‘hit’ for an immigration violation that, upon further investigation, the Department of Homeland Security could not confirm. These ‘false positives’ have likely caused wrongful detentions and diverted scarce police resources from local public safety priorities, finds a report to be released on Thursday by the Migration Policy Institute.” See the full report via DocuTicker.

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