Sentences with phrase «national libraries in»

CISTI has partnership arrangements with National libraries in Britain, France, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan.

I was the consultant for the French and Spanish National Libraries in order to build economic and technical models for displaying ebooks under rights in national digital libraries, in accordance with publishers.

According to him, there might me 25 million books belonging to public domain in the main regional and national libraries in the world, without counting various editions.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation is working with Worldreader to launch e-reading in every national library in Kenya

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* The Commerce Department's National Trade Data Bank, available through district offices and in some libraries, reportedly contains more than 90,000 documents (including reports from the CIA and the State Department), featuring country - specific overviews of product markets, economic conditions, and best prospects for exporters.

MaRS today announces that Wavefront, a National Centre of Excellence supporting the growth and commercialization of wireless companies in Canada, is providing the MaRS Commons with a mobile handset library that includes the most popular handsets available.

Several years back, after many years of public exhibits in my local public library that included a wide variety of subjects, one of which had been recognition of October being «National Gay & Lesbian History Month»... all H — L broke loose in several city council meetings.

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

In the case of the national bicentennial four years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep as well as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues of American existence.

We're announcing the survey and the procurement pilot in Michigan and Florida and we're releasing an annotated bibliography on farm to school today that the National Agriculture library has been working on.

National Sleep Foundation This site has a tremendous amount of useful information on getting a good nights sleep, including articles, an audio and video library, a place to find sleep professionals in the U.S., and an online community where you can connect with others through online discussion boards and also social networking sites.

This is probably the biggest (as it is The National Library) public library in the country but I'm hoping to visit other city libraries as well.

I am proud of the ways you have made service a significant part of your life: as a boy scout, an alter server at our parish, with your religious education class (making lunches for those who are less fortunate in a nearby suburb), as a member of National Junior Honor Society at Keller, and volunteering with the Summer Learning Program at our neighborhood library.

Maintaining access to public libraries is particularly needed by residents facing the challenges of coping with a struggling local and national economy who have increasingly turned to their public libraries for assistance, resulting in large increases in projected 2010 library use: visits rising 12 %, circulation rising 12 %, and public access computer use rising 92 % across the System vs. 2007 pre-recessionary levels.

First introduced in 1958, National Library Week is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and recognized by public and school libraries across the country each year in April.

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and celebrated by libraries across the country eacNational Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and celebrated by libraries across the country eacnational observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and celebrated by libraries across the country each April.

First commemorated in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and celebrated by libraries across the country eacNational Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and celebrated by libraries across the country eacnational observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and celebrated by libraries across the country each April.

September is National Library Card Sign - up Month — a time to remind everyone that a library card provides access to invaluable services from one of the most important resources in our local communities: your neighborhood library.

An election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board is scheduled on July 24 in the library's community room as a last step to establish a union.

Ever keen to provide comprehensive coverage of developments in the Conservative Party, here are details of some proposals outlined by shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey in a speech to the London Libraries Conference at the end of last week, but which have not received any attention in the national press.

With a first printing of 3000 copies, KOFAC plans to distribute the Atlas volumes widely to educators within the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology and to science education departments in Korean high schools and national libraries.

Today a tall, courtly Southern gentleman with high cheekbones and a delicate frame, Oliver is known for building the National Tick Museum, perhaps the most extensive tick collection and library in the world.

4.2.9 Practice Inter Library Loan (ILL) of articles or components of the Licensed Materials for noncommercial use in compliance with Section 108 of the United States Copyright Law (17 USC 108, «limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and archives») and clause 3 for the Guidelines for Proviso of Subsection 108 (g)(2) prepared by the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted works.

PhD students can now elect representatives to a national students» council and to the academic senate of an increasing number of universities, enjoy economic benefits similar to those of undergraduate students, choose to write their thesis in a foreign language, appeal following a failed defence, and hold their title right after a successful defence, because all further bureaucratic requirements like filing copies of the thesis to the national libraries have been transferred to the universities.

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In 1998, for example, Wiman's team screened a library of 2000 compounds from the U.S. National Cancer Institute and found two that appeared to restore mutant p53's ability to kill cancer cells.

Palfrey argues for a national knowledge network, hinging on what he calls — in a positive way — the hacking of libraries.

This work began as part of a biodefense grant from the National Institutes of Health, screening a library of 30,000 compounds for activity against the envelope of Nipah virus, an emerging infection first identified in 1999 in Malaysia.

Go back to the library, then, and look a bit more, advises Vicki Blazer, a pathologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Fish Health Research Laboratory in Kearneysville, W. Va..

Up to 10 staff from the library will go, 15 from the National Railway Museum in York — an outstation of the Science Museum — and 30 from the collections division, including a quarter of the curators and conservators.

They identified AM404 as a potential antiviral agent by screening the National Institutes of Health Clinical Collection, a library of small molecules that have been used clinically in humans, using a high - throughput screening system.

For the inaugural video in our new series Under the Influence, Barry Jenkins — whose sophomore feature, Moonlight, won big at last night's Gotham Awards and just garnered best director and best supporting actress from the National Board of Review — stopped by the Criterion library to share his passion for the films of Wong Kar - wai.

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Picture — Producers Guild of America Feature Film (Big Budget Comedy)-- Casting Society of America Best Ensemble — National Board of Review Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)-- American Cinema Editors Best Editing — Los Angeles Film Critics Best Screenplay — Toronto Film Critics Association Best Adapted Screenplay — Chicago Film Critics Best Adapted Screenplay — Florida Film Critics Circle Best Adapted Screenplay — Kansas City Film Critics Best Adapted Screenplay — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Adapted Screenplay — Central Ohio Film Critics Best Adapted Screenplay — Critics» Choice Award Best Adapted Screenplay — BAFTA Awards Best Comedy Film — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Comedy Film — Critics» Choice Award Best Actor in a Comedy for Christian Bale — Critics» Choice Award 28th USC Libraries Scripter Award

Alongside these highlights there will be plenty of other Irish film activity; The Irish Film Festival of Oulo will feature an Irish Film Week; the Fantastic Film Festival in Brussels will feature a series of Irish horror films and back home, with the support of the Arts Council, IFI National will tour a programme of films exploring the relationship between Ireland and Europe to libraries and arts centres around the country.

National initiatives like the National Broadband Plan, as well as grants for hardware and software in schools and libraries, can help address the essential - tools gap that persists in some rural and low - income areas.

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.

In August 2007, a national organization, the Uganda Community Libraries Association, was launched to provide training for librarians and distribute small grants.

Imagination and creativity should be encouraged in education, as they not only engage the learner but, according to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), also produce far greater learning outcomes; the school library is one of the greatest resources for promoting this.

«Our volunteer therapy teams go into schools, libraries, after - school programs, detention centers, and hospitals where kids are in long - term wards,» says Paula Dalby, READ's national coordinator.

Rita Platt (@ritaplatt) is a National Board Certified teacher with master's degrees in reading, library, and leadership.

The chapter, Developing National Standards for School Libraries in Canada, was written by Judith Sykes and Carol Koechlin.

Current thinking about the school library as a learning commons, exemplified by Ontario's Together for Learning (Ontario Library Association 2010) and new national standards, Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada (Canadian Library Association 2014) is inspiring educators about realizing new potential for leveraging instructional leadership from the library learning commons.

Citing the research, and the exciting work being done by school library practitioners in realizing the vision of the new school library learning commons, the expert panel recommended that «the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) commission a pan-Canadian assessment engaging the full range of stakeholders, to bring forward a clear and prescriptive set of directives to frame a national policy consensus on the most appropriate model for school libraries / learning commons to maximize their contribution to the K - 12 experience and its learning outcomes.»

The session poster summarizes the exciting progress we've made in establishing a national organization supporting school library practice.

Through a partnership with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the Virtual Campus includes a library of videos showing National Board Certified Teachers in their classrooms.

ATLAS is a library of authentic video cases showing National Board Certified Teachers at work in the classroom.

While the national average for weekly visits to the school library / media center is about one visit per week per student (or 100 visits per 100 students), fewer of the poorest students and students in special education and alternative schools visit each week — 80 out of 100 students.

Since 2007 there has been a national decline in the number of school library / media centers and there are fewer library / media centers operating in high ‐ poverty schools than in wealthier schools, especially low income schools in the inner cities, where the number has dropped by five percentage points.

Navigate the new National School Library Standards to reimagine your school library and transform teaching and learning in your community.