News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Library News
Carz Nelson
We live in rapidly changing times. For updated information on Hennepin County Library (HCLib) services during the coronavirus pandemic, visit www.hclib.org. All information listed here is accurate as of April 16, 2021.
ON THE AVENUE BY TUFAWON PRESENTED BY FRANKLIN LIBRARY
Local artist Tufawon has dropped a tune about Philip”™s own Franklin Avenue. Franklin Library presents the video on the library”™s YouTube channel. Check it out. It”™s a good representation of the neighborhood. And besides, someone you know could be in it.
The URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO6yPou0NoM. Or else go to YouTube and search for On the Avenue by Tufawon.
DUE DATES RETURN
HCLib suspended due dates for the past year because of COVID. This policy ended on April 26. Check your online account or paper receipts for due dates. Renewal policies remain the same; items can be renewed up to three times. Returns are accepted at”¯all library locations. Book drops accept returns 24/7.
MAYDAY PROGRAM LED BY UMN”™S LABOR EDUCATION SERVICE
Celebrating May Day: Workers of the Twin Cities Labor Movement– Workers from Tattersall Distilling, Augsburg University, and the Atwood Center talk about recent organizing campaigns in their workplaces. Thursday May 6th at 6:30 PM., Registration is on the library website.… Read the rest “Library News”
May 2021
Arts and culture edition! Plus Covid vaccine location details and contact info (p10), credit score help (p11), new community voices p.5, more info on the Deep Winter Greenhouse and May actions on the Roof Depot, Heart of the Beast update (p11), and … Howard’s review of Godzilla vs. Kong (p10)!
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Little Earth Partnership Redefines Research
By SARAH McVICAR
Reprinted with permission from Metropolitan State University”™s Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship
In 2015, Metropolitan State Human Services Professor Roberta Gibbons and residents of the Little Earth community embarked on a rare, shared project that would impact them both in fundamental and enduring ways. Like Little Earth itself ”“ the only Native-preference Section 8 housing community in the nation ”“ the initiative was unique from the start.
It began with a proposal for a small research grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to gather data about the drivers and causes of violence at Little Earth ”“ and potentially secure a subsequent larger grant to fund community programming.
At the heart of the project was the unique way in which it embodied its model of Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) ”“ what the Healthy City program defines as a “collaborative approach to research that involves all stakeholders throughout the research process…” and “aims to address the practical concerns of people in a community and fundamentally changes the roles of researcher and who is being researched” ”“ or, as Gibbons describes it: “Research with a community rather than research on a community.”
“This was a project that followed very true to the model of participatory action research,” Gibbons said.… Read the rest “Little Earth Partnership Redefines Research”
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