A Review of State Revenue Actions, 1999-2010

This report examines tax and other revenue changes enacted by the states since 1999 with particular focus on Georgia's Southeast and AAA-rated peers, and how states have dealt with budget gaps in two post-recession periods

Comparing Georgia's Fiscal Policies to Regional and National Peers

The purpose of this report is to analyze the major components of Georgia's state and local revenue and expenditure mixes relative to its peer states. FRC Report 20

Options for Funding Trauma Care in Georgia

This report examines several options for funding trauma care in Georgia through dedicated revenue sources, with the objective of raising approximately $100 million. FRC Report 18

Continuous measurements of discharge from a horizontal acoustic Doppler current profiler in a tidal river

Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) can be mounted horizontally at a river bank, yielding single-depth horizontal array observations of velocity across the river. This paper presents a semideterministic, semistochastic method to obtain continuous measurements of discharge from horizontal ADCP (HADCP) data in a tidal river. In the deterministic part, single-depth velocity data are converted to specific discharge by applying the law of the wall, which requires knowledge of local values of the bed roughness length (z0). A new filtration technique was developed to infer cross-river profiles of z0 from moving boat ADCP measurements. Width-averaged values of z0 were shown to be predominantly constant in time but differed between ebb and flood. In the stochastic part of the method, specific discharge was converted to total discharge on the basis of a model that accounts for the time lag between flow variation in the central part of the river and flow variation near the banks. Model coefficients were derived using moving boat ADCP data. The consistency of mutually independent discharge estimates from HADCP measurements was investigated to validate the method, analyzing river discharge and tidal discharge separately. Inaccuracy of the method is attributed primarily to mechanisms controlling transverse exchange of momentum, which produce temporal variation in the discharge distribution over the cross section. Specifically, development of river dunes may influence the portion of the discharge concentrated within the range of the HADC

Libraries and the Right to the City: Insights from Democratic Theory Prepared for the 2013 LACUNY Institute: Libraries, Information, and the Right to the City

David Harvey\u27s right to the city is a productive point to discuss the role of urban libraries and democracy. Harvey\u27s ideas, however, can be further deepened by engaging them with democratic theory. Within Harvey\u27s broader challenge to neoliberalism, democratic theory helps to tie the work of librarianship to a meaningful instantiation of a right to the city through a review of: the concepts (and brief history) of rights the founding theories of rights themselves, the public sphere (a LACUNY Institute framing concept), community, and democratic voice

Interview with Paige Buschman, Class of 2019

Oral history interview with Illinois State University alumnus Paige Buschman, Class of 2019. The interview was conducted on July 14, 2022, by Ryan Cox, at the time an undergraduate student at Illinois State University. They discussed their challenges finding a community as a queer graduate student at ISU, working as a house director for a sorority, and how they became drawn to civic engagement work.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/aoh/1041/thumbnail.jp

Transgression or Stasis? Challenging Foucault in LIS Theory

Michel Foucault (1926–84) is a primary thinker informing the construction of a critical theory of library and information science (LIS), or librarianship. He is widely cited and is adapted in various ways that focus on LIS forms of power, discourse, and so on. Others have addressed Foucault’s topics, but he remains central. Li- brarianship has taken up a prior challenge to more fully explore his work, and it is now time to carefully review the implications of Foucault’s thinking as a foun- dation for a critical-theoretical LIS. Foucault has undergone extensive analysis and critique, and this article is a similar step within LIS. While not comprehensive, a review of Foucauldian ideas within LIS literature from a core group of authors is undertaken. Critiques and problems in Foucault’s thinking are reviewed since, by relying on Foucault’s insights for a line of analysis and research, this LIS theoretical work will reflect some of those same problems

On the Political Nature of Library Leadership

This paper examines the political nature of library leadership and acknowledges consistent problems within the management and leadership literature. The political nature of leadership is offered as an insight versus the usual imitation of business management discourse. A critical theory of library leadership is offered. The paper proceeds by examining what we mean by “leadership” and “political” and how those concepts relate before analyzing what has changed to call forth a critical interpretation and framework for library leadership. It moves on to examine insights from political theor