Impact Alabama / Real Life Poets / Women’s Fund / Birmingham Foodie Book Club Food / Twitter / Read Write / Facebook / Family History Resources / Drink / BPL / Junior League / Birmingham Cultural Alliance Partnership / Birmingham Education Foundation / Greater Birmingham LINKS Incorporated / Seasons Readings 2012 African American Booklist 2012 Weekly / Community Partnerships / Birmingham Children’s Theater / Desert Island Supply Company / DISCO Eat / YouTube / DaVita Inc. / Birmingham’s Sanspointe Dance Company / Net Alabama Holocaust Education Committee Alabama Public Television / Vestavia Hills Public Library Support Group / Protective Life / /
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the Academy Award / the Iowa Poetry Prize / /
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Top 40 / /
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Paul Tough / Andrew Nelson / Eudora Welty / Michelle Obama / Evelyn Coleman / Dave Holland / Kevin Young / Winfred Burks / Tamar Adler / Saundra Ross Forrest / Paul Knipple / Elinor Burks / Arthur Shores / Alex Lamis / Creig Hoskins / Gwendolyn B. Guster Welch / Patricia Todd / Phyllis Theroux / Cynthia Levinson / Renee Blalock / Annie Shackelford / John Paul Taylor / Elinor Burks Rally / Dsyche Williams-Forson / Eliz Hughey / Psyche Wiliams-Forson / Angela Knipple / Peggy Polk / Katrina Pigler / John Rogers / Irene Latham / Edward J. Blum / Damita Hill / Martin Luther King / Jr. / Jo Kittenger / Katie Elkins / Aisha Lummba / Rachel Swarns / Tamara Wilson / Larry Dane Brimner / Jim Baggett / Willa McNeal / Maurice Cook / Deli Je / Alexis Barton / /
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librarian / Architect / North Avondale librarian / Library Trustee / Author / King / author and local chef / Major / representative / local poet and author / Chef / City Personnel Director / poet / Library Board president / Civil Rights Lawyer and Civic Leader / Library Director / fundraiser / chair / /
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I BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNUAL REPORT 2012 n the Birmingham Public Library’s 126 year history, 2012 might be described as transformative. On the heels of severe budget and staff cuts implemented