Sentences with phrase «what library material»

What library material other than books are you comfortable in handling?

Not exact matches

But recently, library officials have seen a dip in the circulation of children's materials at the 95th Street branch, and they have shifted staff at all the community's libraries to accommodate what seem to be the bigger populations today: teens and seniors.

That set me thinking: what novel structures and materials might already lurk undetected in the huge library of musical compositions?

Teachers assign homework for a variety of reasons: to help students review what has been learned; to help them prepare for the next class session; to extend student exploration of topics more fully than class time permits; or to help students gain skill in self - directed learning and using resources such as libraries and reference materials.

In response, these eager and anxious novices searched the Internet, eavesdropped on conversations to discover what other teachers did, photocopied frantically, spent hours preparing handouts, scoured library shelves for relevant background reading, and spent their own money on materials that would help them get by for a day or a week.

Libraries could do special actions where games are featured alongside other material in a franchise, such as books and cartoon series or what have you.

What do you get when you pair a children's librarian — whose father may be connected to the Russian mafia — with a curious 10 - year - old boy whose dubious sexuality has caused his evangelical parents to enroll him in an anti-gay class and strictly monitor his library material?

As more and more mainstays in reference material shift to strictly online formats, what will that hold for academic institutions and reference libraries?

The ILS comprises the backbone of a library's technology environment, tying together transactions and data about patron checkouts and holds, ordering and cataloging new materials and it powers what patrons see on the library's website.

Not because I wanted to, not because the library couldn't afford to purchase what was requested, but because the material wasn't available in the library marketplace for various weird reasons that were harder and harder to explain to colleagues, let alone patrons.

What I Like: Great size, very portable; extremely easy to operate; large screen with lots of viewing options; multiple language support; pre-loaded with a diverse virtual library of classics and information; easy to download even more reading material from several free eBook sites

It is an online membership website where self - represented lawyers can access (1) a comprehensive text detailing each stage of the discipline process and how it works, what to expect, pitfalls to avoid, and tips on how to navigate the system, (2) a document library containing dozens of sample documents for State Bar Court filings and State Bar investigations, since these materials are generally difficult to come by despite being technically public, and (3) a forum where members can share information, ideas, concerns, and experiences.

To meet colleagues — some in person after years of virtual interaction — and to absorb what looks to be rich programming at the American Association of Law Libraries conference and, in turn, to share what I can by writing Storifys or other such material.

Even as any number of other legal research platforms have come along, what has continued to distinguish the big two are their libraries of secondary legal materials.

What I got from the session was that law librarians (outside of universities, at least) are all in the same situation at the moment regards to eBooks: we are waiting for eBooks that reflect how our clients use our library materials, and which a) do not have overly restrictive licensing, b) are not horrendously expensive and c) are reasonably easy for clients to use.

Libraries also get asked to copy books, articles, and other non-governmental materials (which are most definitely copyrighted), and that's where the uncertainty is about what / how much can be copied.

This mix of primary (both regulatory and judicial) and secondary (both CLE and commentary) materials is a perfect illustration of what John Palfrey, director of the Harvard law Library, in his recent article «Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital - Plus», 102 Law Libr J 171 (2010), describes as the new «legal information ecosystem».

I am interested by recent discussions I have had with librarians at various law libraries about how they make decisions about what materials to keep, cancel, or discard.

Not to mention what might happen if there was a fire or an earthquake here or at another library with irreplaceable materials.

A selective survey of the existing environment reveals the following: law society libraries have a national resource sharing agreement; however, it doesn't include interlibrary loans of books or other print materials, and there is no formal agreement relating to what collections any particular library will maintain in perpetuity for the support of the others.

I've been perusing public libraries looking at what's available to the general public with regards to reference materials for legal subjects for anyone wanting to read up on law and procedures that may affect every day people and what I find are selves of books from Carswell and a few from Irwin Law.

The other side of «decommissioning» material is to consider what other library carries what I'm discarding, and if can I get it somewhere else fairly easily.