Sentences with phrase «libraries say the state»

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«The current state of the art for mobile devices is voice control,» but that is still imprecise, usually requires a data connection and is difficult to use in, say, the library.

The Russian president does not wear the ring, he said: it's on display at the Kremlin's library, where all official state gifts are kept.

Most of the surviving copies are in institutions, such as major libraries at universities, colleges and cathedrals in the United Kingdom and United States, she said.

«A 20 - year old college student, who asked to remain anonymous, says one of his friends took the photo at a library at The Ohio State University.

(«No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees «on the public payroll,»» said the court in 1970.

The library paid for the upgrades with $ 8.7 million in grant money from Onondaga County, New York State, the federal government and several private grants, Mitchell said.

The former President said while he was in the military as Head of State and during the civil war, he did not gather many materials that could have been in the library.

The establishment of special legislative district libraries that support local library funding increases is stymied by the Cuomo administration, Post says, but the 2017 - 2018 state budget increases spending by $ 10 million for library construction.

«Our community libraries are a focal point for gathering and learning,» said state Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat who joined Assemblyman David Buchwald, a White Plains Democrat, to help the municipal libraries acquire the grant money.

Senator Michael Ranzenhofer said, «The final plan secures our fair share of state funding for our school districts in Western New York, and restores funding — initially cut under the Executive Budget proposal — to our local public libraries.

«Every single resident of this city deserves a state of the art community library,» Van Bramer said Monday, when he and Queens Library officials unveiled a small model of the future library, an elaborately designed building from well - known architect Steven Holl.

For instance, when people saw Canadian science data being taken off websites and agency libraries being closed under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's administration, he said, people spoke up, and now scientists in the United States are downloading data and putting it online elsewhere.

«You might want to write a library that has inside of it as private state the database table that records usernames and passwords,» Chlipala says.

«Most software programs rely, in part, on code in external «libraries» to perform some of their functions,» says Chris Parnin, an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University and senior author of a paper on the work.

«I think these are important efforts, and the library community is very supportive of them,» says Joseph Branin, director of the Ohio State University libraries.

The National Education Technology Funding Corporation will aim to stimulate private investment in school technology and encourage states to sponsor information networks for public schools and libraries, said James E. Murray, a member of the group's board and a former president of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

«Beyond his years of service directly to the profession, he has kept the perspective of libraries and their users vital through key advisory roles in the development of the National Library of Education and the new ERIC database,» said award committee Chair Paula McMillen, social science reference librarian and associate professor at Oregon State University.

Nick Poole, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, said: «ATL's survey paints a worrying picture of the state of the UK's school libraries.

For now, Soalt says the nonprofit is geared toward educators in the United States, but she hopes that as the site grows, BookMentors can begin working with schools, libraries, and NGOs abroad.

«There are so many libraries here in the United States,» she says, sitting in a Cambridge teashop.

The districts are raising objections to the state's definition of administrative costs, a category they say unfairly counts spending on school libraries, counselors, and other services that directly benefit students.

A former library media specialist in Indianapolis» Washington Township, she campaigned against the IREAD - 3, the state's literacy exam for third graders, saying a pass / fail test was too harsh for 8 - year - olds.

«Creating is becoming a new digital competency, and libraries are building and expanding their programs and services to meet these changing community needs,» said Ann Joslin, President of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies.

«ESSA has created tremendous new opportunities for states to put effective school library programs to work for their students,» says Roger Rosen, President of Rosen Publishing.

I'm not saying it is a bad product, but inability to download library content in Canada should have been clearly stated.

For example, New York's libraries say that «Any person who lives, works, attends school or pays property taxes in New York State is eligible to receive a New York Public Library card free of charge.»

And steady income comes from two previous referendums and a state appropriation worth $ 1 million every year for school libraries, which is about $ 5,000 for each library, he says.

Amazon (s amzn) said on Wednesday that it will roll out a Kindle Lending Library later this year, which will allow users of the popular e-reader to borrow books from more than 11,000 libraries throughout the United States.

Sargent stated he is open to new business models with libraries going so far as to say, «If there is a model where the publisher gets a piece of the action every time the book is borrowed, that's an interesting model.»

All state libraries are part of the competition and can submit a book, Raleigh said.

State and local government officials might question what you have been doing with the money appropriated to fund your public library: «You say you bought the books, but now you don't have them anymore?

Traditionally, going to the library has been like going to Wal - Mart, said Paula Isett, outreach specialist with the Maryland Department of Education, who consults with the state's libraries.

According to Library Journal, Budler refused to renew the libraries» contract with OverDrive when the distribution service attempted not only to significantly raise fees, but also to rewrite the terms of the contract in such a way that would prevent the libraries from ever transferring their holdings to a different provider.20 The State Library of Kansas then decided to transfer the libraries» existing digital content to a new e-book lending service from technology company 3M, although Budler said that they first had to secure individual publishers» permission to transfer the titles.

The obstructionists, in Stewart's view, included county prosecutors, the trial judge, the assistant public defender who represented him at his first trial (which ended in a mistrial), the private defense lawyer who represented him between the two trials, jail officials he says unfairly denied him access to the law library and the state Attorney Grievance Commission.

The Kansas State Library, another library working with 3M, said recently that «Amazon had asked to postpone discussion with 3M until June (back in March) so we are hoping to receive more information soon.»