Sentences with phrase «library read project»

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I suggested we take the book on as a project - reading the section on each artist, and then search our bookshelves (and maybe the library) for the books illustrated by said artist - to give a closer look to and study their style.

The project is designed to promote the pleasures of reading along with outreach activities, such as paperback book exchanges and participation in events such as the Farmers Market, Alpine Days and the Ela Festival of the Arts, library officials said.

«This capital funding will help us move key library projects forward, so the community has expanded, updated facilities for reading and learning.

In that never - ending project, I was trying to run some data analysis, but the statistical libraries I thought I could use were not offering all the features I had expected (take that Julio for not reading thoroughly all the documentation).

Oct. 11: Bookstores, libraries and schools across the country celebrate Star Wars Reads Day with craft projects, costume contests and, of course, readings.

Other strategies for sharing the oral histories with a larger audience include dedicating class or homework time to reading other students» oral histories, sending copies of the narratives to local schools and libraries, or creating classroom or campus exhibits based on the project.

Future targets include a pilot project to run the model in Syrian refugee communities in Jordan, and the development of a multilingual, online, training toolkit for readers wanting to start their own neighbourhood read - aloud library.

During the second marking period English teacher, Mrs. Anne Schneider, and library media teacher, Mrs. Robin Burns, worked with Honors English 11 students to create a project - based assessment on the summer outside reading selection, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin.

These suitcase book report projects are also a great way to add research and library skills into your reading lesson plans.

John D. Runkle School, Brookline This project will allow teachers to improve their tier one instruction in literacy and enhance independent reading practice through the creation of leveled classroom reading libraries.

As library specialists at Monticello High School in the Albemarle County Public Schools district in Albemarle, Virginia, we have seen the library evolve from a traditional, research - and reading - centered space that few students utilized to one where students and teachers flock to use the latest technology, collaborate on projects, and create content.

BookWorks — BookBaby — IngramSpark — SELF - e / Library Journal — BookLife — Pressbooks Public — Califa — Rails Libraries — IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Assocation)-- IndieReader — Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project — Bibliolabs — Massachusetts Library System — Where Writers Win — No Shelf Required — Author U — Read Local — Written Word Media — Indies Unlimited — Publishers & Writers of San Diego (PWSD) / Publishers & Writers of Orange County (PWOC)

A workshop on libraries and ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP, Library and Academic Sales, Random House; George Coe, President, Library & Education, Baker - Taylor; Barbara Genco, Manager, Special Projects, Library Journal; Stephanie Anderson, Head of Readers Advisory, Darien Library; and Heather McCormack,... [Read more...]

Peter Brantley, of the non-profit startup Hypothes.is Project whose goal is to develop a deeper dialogue between libraries and publishers, spoke from the library and ebook lending perspective,... [Read more...]

The Nova Scotia Provincial Library, Halifax Public Libraries, and the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association have collaborated to provide greater access to the region's e-Books through a project called Read Local.

The project focused on the idea of the physical library space as a destination for readers and tested a proposition for in - library access to a wide range of digital reading and reading - related content.

Library 21, led by The Reading Agency and funded by Arts Council England's Libraries Development Initiative, was a research and scoping project exploring a new concept for public libraries in the digLibraries Development Initiative, was a research and scoping project exploring a new concept for public libraries in the diglibraries in the digital age.

Project Gutenberg has an extensive library of free, public domain (or merely out of copyright) works that are easily transferred and read on the reader.

The gist: The Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project ™ shows that public libraries have an influence on what their patrons read.

Capti supports many popular file formats such as HTML, EPUB, PDF, and DOC that can be added to the Playlist from numerous sources, including the local computer, other iOS apps, Cloud storage services: Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive; read - it - later lists: Instapaper and Pocket; and, now, also the Project Gutenberg eBook library.

While Cowart went on to explain that a project like this is not a catch - all solution for encouraging reading and library participation, it is a valuable tool for reaching patrons where they are and for making the library an important part of the community for all citizens, not just the few who come to the physical location for content, education, and technology needs.

Also, I've yet to entirely figure out if I can create my own «desktop library» with my Project Gutenberg reading list.

It was started off as the creator's pet project to solve the problems that were encountered, to log the books from the reading list in a spreadsheet and to frequently check books» availability in the libraries.

The Early and Transitional Reading Programs team develops and maintains these essential partnerships while also continually innovating the suite of technologies that enhance Worldreader's school and library e-reading projects.

A patent application for a virtual bookshelf program from Google was published last month, and it provides us with a chance to see how Google might integrate its book search, and Google Books Library Project with a personal library feature that allows us to show the books that we've read, share reviews with others, and track and find books that we might want to read in the future.

BookWorks - BookBaby - IngramSpark - SELF - e / Library Journal - BookLife - Pressbooks Public - Califa - Rails Libraries - IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Assocation)- IndieReader - Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project - Bibliolabs - Massachusetts Library System - Where Writers Win - No Shelf Required - Author U - Read Local - Written Word Media - Indies Unlimited - Publishers & Writers of San Diego (PWSD) / Publishers & Writers of Orange County (PWOC)

Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads 2018, the library's 16th annual community reading project, begins today with the distribution of thousands of copies of Moshin Hamid's Exit West.

PORTLAND, Ore. — July 28, 2016 — Next January, Multnomah County Library will launch Everybody Reads 2017, the library's 15th annual community reading project, with Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.

Next February, Multnomah County Library will launch Everybody Reads 2018, the library's 16th annual community reading project, with Mohsin Hamid's Exit West.

NOTE: If you haven't checked out the Little Free Libraries project, I'd encourage you to click on the link and learn more — it's a tangible, feel good way to promote book reading in your own town, too!

Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads 2014, the library's 12th annual community reading project began today with the distribution of thousands of copies of My Beloved World by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to schools and libraries.

In January, 2015, Multnomah County Library will launch Everybody Reads 2015, the library's 13th annual community reading project, with Mitchell S. Jackson's debut novel The Residue Years.

Free Reading Zones (FREZ) is the name of a project that I have been involved with as a library and publishing consultant since 2016.

The goal is to provide direct assistance funding to middle or high school libraries for special short - term projects or events that would create new or enhance educational activities in order to engage students with and in the library and to promote reading, books, literacy and authors.

The Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project ™ shows that public libraries have an influence on what their patrons read.

Beware, public libraries: You'll go the way of print newspapers if you automatically diss nonlibrarians» gutsy ideas — A very interesting series on the BiblioTech project in Bexar County, Texas, which not only provides an all - digital library, but is also working to ensure that patrons have sufficient access to digital reading... more >

Afterwards, Beccone and a group of other individuals will perform an iteration of an ongoing library project entitled An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library in which short selections of text from some of the books in Corona Branch will be read in the museum's atrium.

Carl Wagan is a traveling gallery, printshop, studio, library, reading room, classroom, and community project - all contained within a 1988 VW Westfalia camper van.

Recent projects include an extended portrait series called Smoke Break, about Americans who continue to smoke in the face of public bans and shift in public tolerance for the act, and Withdrawn, a study of discarded library books and how technology has altered basic activities such as reading.

Unpacking the Green Book: Travel and Segregation in Jim Crow America explores the history of The Green Book in an interactive project space through materials such as a library and reading area devoted to the topics of segregation, automobility, travel, and leisure, specifically as they relate to the black American experience in the midcentury; digitized copies of The Green Book; interactive maps that explore travel destinations included in it; and multiple film excerpts from upcoming documentary projects.

During the week we will do nature related art projects, make a trip to our neighborhood recycling center and have a mini-lesson in recycling, and read books from the library with nature themes.»

I am always amazed to read lapalissade like «[law firm libraries] are continuing to move beyond «traditional» library work, like legal research, and into marketing and competitive intelligence, computer training and even knowledge management projects.»

One of the results of our library's mobile shelf reading project is that we ended up with thousands of lost books to review for possible replacement.

I am in the planning stages of sprucing up my reading room / library... I would use $ 100 to get that project started (stripping wallpaper and painting).