Sentences with phrase «about libraries featured»

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Barbara Higham: When I was feeding my baby at the library while choosing books with my four - year - old, a lady asked me if she could take our photograph for a local community feature about libraries.

My favorite episode thus far is the «Witch of Wyckhadden» episode, which features a castle library, as well as a hidden passageway (which I have been a sucker for ever since reading about Nancy Drew's adventures in The Hidden Staircase).

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Forecast: Fitting well into the recent trend of young adult dramas, «To the Bone» helps address the surprising lack of feature films about eating disorders, and should be an active catalog title in the Netflix library.

About Focus Features Focus Features (www.focusfeatures.com) acquires and produces specialty films for the global market, and holds a library of iconic movies from fearless filmmakers.

About Marvel Entertainment Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly - owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character - based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years

Assign a different state tree to each student and have that student use library and / or Internet resources to learn about the tree, its range, and its special features.

When you enter the MI Network, you can find teaching jobs at MI schools, MI activities from our library to conduct at home or in the classroom, answers to some frequently asked questions about MI, and many more features.

To find out more about how teachers can take advantage of LDC's tools and approach, you can register today for a free three - part webinar series that will introduce you to teaching strategies from Facing History's Mini Task Collection, featured in the LDC's CoreTools library.

The myTeachstone content library includes 250 + videos featuring footage from real classrooms with accompanying text and discussion questions, printable templates and activities, whitepapers, research summaries, and other resources for learning about CLASS and the importance of effective classroom interactions.

Join us in this fast - paced session featuring 10 - minute lightning talks from innovative Ontario teacher - librarians about their journey to a library learning commons.

Queens Library Magazine combines great library - themed feature stories and two months» worth of information about our free programs, services, and special events, and it's available at your neighborhood library or...

These can include, but are not limited to, an author panel featuring traditional, hybrid and self - published authors from the community; presentations from local indie authors about writing, marketing and more; book readings and / or signings from local authors; presentations from local industry leaders; writing workshops and informative presentations and workshops about tools available to the writing community through the library.

At yesterday's IDPF event, BiblioBoard's Mitchell Davis sat down with Good eReader to talk about the new feature that was just launched with Library Journal that will offer libraries a way to feel confident about including self - published ebooks in their lending catalogs.

Top Tech Trends features our ongoing roundtable discussion about trends and advances in library technology by a panel of LITA technology experts and thought leaders.

Like among the new features that are to be added include the ability to make personalized book recommendations right on the Kindle app home screen itself while also enabling the user to inform friends about any book suggestions right from book within the library itself without requiring to log out of the app.

This feature, called Self - e, will offer libraries a curated list of titles that not only have some standard of quality for writing, grammar, and formatting, but will also help prevent any concerns about the content of the book, much like the stripping of titles last year from major retailers when inappropriate content made its way into the children's sections of various stores.

It certainly offers a great deal of features alongside an easy to use interface, but what makes Calibre seem like a great program is the fact that it possesses a certain charm about it, which gives you the feeling that your e-book library is in good hands.

Other updates included in the new software include an improved and expanded X-Ray feature for revealing plot and character details in books you're reading, more integration of Amazon's Goodreads acquisition, improved search that provides results spanning the Kindle Store, Kindle Library and Goodreads in a single page, and an «About This Book» feature that gives you basically inside jacket or library card information whenever you need it.

Besides the 3G, one feature I loved about the Kindle Touch was how it handles library books.

-- Social media pages geared toward providing readers with discounted books — Newsletters geared toward providing readers with discounted books or reviews of books at any price — Blogs that feature books from specific categories, discounted books, or book reviews — Any print publication that reviews books — Email lists that provide libraries with information about books, either with or without reviews — Distributor catalogues that provide bookstores and libraries with information about books, either with or without reviews — The algorithms that trigger «you might like» and «buyers also considered» recommendations on internet sales sites — Consumer reviews Notice the emphasis in most of these areas on reviews.

In January we opened a preview of the site without any campaigns on it and we talked specifically about special features for the library market.

The best thing about the Kobo is I am not limited to one bookstore and I can borrow from the library BUT I did decide to buy the Kobo because of the BT feature — that I can't use.

In the first of a new series of posts that feature librarians» successful ideas and creative solutions, Katharine Phenix from Anythink Libraries in Colorado tells us about «Shakespeare Society: Pizza and a Play,» a popular program that has been running strong for six years!

«The IR app has all of the features you would expect in a great e-reader,» explained president Amy Edelman in an announcement about the app, «including the ability to customize display settings, notes, highlights and bookmarks, and the ability to access all of your titles in a cloud - based library for synched reading on as many platforms and devises (including the aforementioned Apple and Android), in addition to all your tablets, smart phones and other mobile devises from a single account.

Learn how the recent addition of an assessment feature makes Research Companion the one - stop shop for all your information literacy needs and to hear about the great success librarian Deborah Sherry had after adopting Research Companion in her high school library.

When a customer borrows a Kindle library book, they'll have all of the unique features they love about Kindle books, including Whispersync, which automatically synchronizes their margin notes, highlights and bookmarks, real page numbers, Facebook and Twitter integration, and more.

I hadn't ever thought about checking this feature at my local library.

Besides all the features and services, the most promising thing about the e-reading device that has held up the chain of users is the dynamic kindle library, which holds up a classic bunch of titles under different genres.

All in all, library e-book lending isn't anything like the «free e-books forever» ideal many people might have in their head when thinking about the feature.

And they cited something which I agree is one of the most compelling features about Amazon's ecosystem: the Kindle Lending Library, which lets you borrow one ebook from the library each month without having to pay for it.

The Auditorium Speaker Series features American icon and 2013 National Library Week Honorary Chair Caroline Kennedy, who will speak about the importance of libraries, reading, and society.

When the Sony Daily Edition reader was announced, we got a bit excited about its electronic library program and wide screen, but alas, we're still waiting to actually get one of these devices into our hands to check out all the features:

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book - and publishing - related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News In Face of NEA Cuts, Small Presses Worry About Their Futures (Publishers Weekly) Librarians Vow to Fight Trump on Funding Cuts to libraries.

If they are worried about lending beyond territories that publishers have contracts for, then some other method could easily have been found rather than to take away one of the most impressive features of ebooks from libraries.

OverDrive sent a letter today to about 35,000 librarians worldwide and invited them to opt in to a program that will run from May 15 through June 1 and allow all participating libraries to feature simultaneously on their OverDrive home page, at no cost, a single title from Sourcebooks.

The session, featuring authors Paul Volponi and Richard Peck, will challenge you to think big about your library programs and provide ideas for rethinking how you serve teens in order to keep programs relevant in these rapidly changing times.

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One thing I like about it (which isn't a feature of the Cybook) is that if I borrow ebooks from my library, there's an indicator that says how many days I have left on the loan.

More Inclusions: - Pre-arrival preference form to allow Butlers to tailor and customize each guest's experience - Personalized VIP arrival and private escort to the Royal Service Lounge - Dramatic new two - story Royal Service Lounge featuring a library, magazines, international newspapers, DVD movie library, CD music library, cultural corner withinformation about the DR, area maps, sustainable initiatives and more, Wi - Fi and complimentary use of iPads.

I have my console to play exclusives and if I only cared about power I'd be on pc (which also has a wider games library, more features and more exclusives than Xbox currently has).

They don't ***** about the free games, a solid subscription, a great library of games and fantastic features.

«The rules about used games have now been removed but the cool feature where you could go to a friends house and play your games (by signing in and downloading them from your library) has been removed, or at least partially removed.»

Michael Holroyd, writing about Mark Gertler - one of the artists featured in The Whitechapel Boys, a launch exhibition for the renovated gallery, which has expanded into the old library - restates the established Bloomsbury position when faced with unmapped eastern parts (anywhere on the wrong side of Grays Inn Road).

Martindale - Hubbell today added a new feature to its martindale.com Web site — a library of in - depth articles, written by lawyers, about a variety of legal topics.

Slaw readers with the recollection of Funes the Memorious may recall a posting about a hotel in Chandigarh which advertised a law library as one of its guest features.

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One of the coolest features about Apple Music is the ability to automatically match songs in the listener's iTunes library to songs on the streaming service.

This feature will scan your local iTunes library and «match» the songs to songs Apple knows about, giving you access to them on Apple's servers.