Banned Books Week takes place October 5–11. This year’s theme is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” 1982 Year that ALA held its first Banned Books Week. 2,452 Total number of unique titles challenged in libraries in in 2024 that were documented by ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. While that number is a … Continue reading By the Numbers: Banned Books Week 2025→ The post By the Numbers: Banned Books Week 2025 appeared first on American Libraries Magazine.| American Libraries Magazine
Communicators can guide leaders to the right channel and timing. When big changes happen, employees want to hear from their leaders. And some recent data shows that leaders see more changes on the horizon, underscoring the need to communicate these situations correctly. According to a recent report from The Grossman Group and The Harris Poll […] The post Data: How employees prefer to receive leadership communications (and why they sometimes fail) appeared first on Ragan Communications.| Ragan Communications
Get to know the stats behind the College of Arts and Sciences, the largest academic unit on campus and the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The post By the numbers: The College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill appeared first on Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine.| Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine
I recently wrote a story about beer foam for Brewing Industry Guide (“Foam Loves Hops (Except When It Doesn’t”). As happens, I had to leave a few darlings on the cutting room floor in order to have room for some key information. Such as, Dry hopping with Cascade pellets resulted in a near-linear decline in ... Read more| Appellation Beer
Hop harvest has begun in Oregon (where I’ll be in two weeks). This is roadkill from a previous harvest. Perhaps I will try to make “fun with numbers” a semi-regular Friday feature…| Appellation Beer
The story is behind a paywall, but you can get a look if you share your email address. “In 2005 the median German quaffed 112 litres of the stuff. The figure is now less than 90. Germany remains the sixth-biggest beer market in the world. But whereas Germans once downed more than anyone bar the ... Read more| Appellation Beer
