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ConnectNY, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is a consortium of independent academic institutions in New York State. The mission of ConnectNY is to share collections, leverage resources, and enhance services through cooperative initiatives and coordinated activities. This paper describes the founding and growth of the consortium, 2001–2021. The files of former Executive Director, Bart Harloe, and the current Executive Director, Pamela Jones, were consulted to write the narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent work has applied the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine narrative strategies in policy debates on social media platforms. We contribute to the literature by applying the NPF to fracking policy debates in New York using well‐established Natural Language Processing tools, including sentiment analysis. We combine this computational approach with a qualitative hand‐coding of pro‐ and antifracking Twitter influentials. This approach allows us to consider a much larger corpus of tweets over a much longer time frame than has been done thus far. We adapt and test NPF propositions related to the use of the devil/angel shift strategies before and after a major state‐wide policy change, that is, a state‐wide moratorium on high volume hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Overall, we find evidence for the use of the devil shift narrative strategy by the pro‐fracking coalition aimed at the Governor prior to the moratorium. After the moratorium, the relative percentage of Tweets containing devil shift sentiments decreases as the pro‐fracking coalition generally downshifts in its use of angel shift language without a corresponding increase in devil shift language, whereas, conversely, the anti‐fracking coalition generally downshifts in its use of devil shift language without a general increase in angel shift language. When we shifted our analysis to Tweets containing fracking and the Governor, we found a similar postban decrease in devil shift language among anti‐fracking users. Our findings offer lessons for using computational tools in the NPF as an approach to expand analytic ability and for the operationalization of concepts such as narrative strategies and policy entrepreneurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nadia Murad is a bold Yazidi girl, who fought against serious sexual and emotional harassment from ISIS enslavement in Iraq. Her touching creation "The last girl" is a story of captivity and her battle against the Islamic state. Her mother and six brothers were killed. The book is the voice of orphan, rape victim, slave and refugee. The book is written by Nadia Murad and Jenna Krajeski, a journalist based in New York. The present article is an effort to analysis the narrative technique, issue of race and difference, refugee and feminism dealt in the book "The last girl". The work is autobiographical. Most of such books deal with the dream than reality, but here we can feel the touching facts. The timespan of the work is from 2014 to 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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