Sentences with phrase «borrowing at public libraries»

While many e-book titles are available for borrowing at public libraries, there is usually a long virtual line for the most popular books.

Not exact matches

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Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

News — 1) OverDrive reports tremendous growth in borrowing of e-books at public libraries and schools during 2011.

In our national survey, we also asked people who do not borrow e-books, including those who do not read them in general, whether they would be interested in certain resources at their local public library.

looks at the borrowing and purchasing habits of public library users.

Among those who borrowed e-books from a public library in 2011, almost two - thirds say the selection at their library is «good» (32 %), «very good» (18 %), or «excellent» (16 %).

Anyone with a library card issued at an OSL library may freely borrow materials from the Warwick Public Library.

In Canada, try borrowing an e-book from the public library on any Kindle and you'll quickly find the limitation — at present and in writing personally to OverDrive they report no intention of making their program available for Kindles in Canada.

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Books borrowed at any RI public library may be returned at any other public library in the state.

E-book borrowing: Fully 90 % of public libraries have e-book lending programs, according to Information Policy and Access Center (IPAC) at the University of Maryland, and 62 % of adults say they know that their local libraries have such programs.

At the end of 2011, compatibility with the patron's e-reader was not the most prominent problem among those who borrowed e-books from a public library in the past 12 months; about one in five e-book borrowers (18 %) said they had wanted to borrow a particular e-book from their public library and found that it was not compatible with their e-book reading device.

Asked where they look first when they are trying to find an e-book, 47 % of those who borrow e-books from libraries say they first look at online bookstores and websites and 41 % say they start at their public library.

Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries — including ePub, the free, «universal» e-book standard set by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) since 2007, used by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Google Books.50 However, e-book borrowers could not check out books on Amazon's Kindle, the predominant e-reader at the time.51 In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.52

If you do not often browse through your book collection or if you have a small book list because you only read a few books concurrently or because you borrow books from a public library, you may not find the ads obtrusive at all.

In 2007, after having seen Donald Judd's library in Marfa, Texas, Vidokle asked Martha Rosler if he could borrow and install her personal library at e-flux as a public reading room.

It was great to hear at CALL about law librarians helping their ereader loving clients with their recreational ebook reading (how to find content they want, borrow from their public library, buy online, download to their devices).

At the Seattle public - library system, e-book borrowing rose 32 % in the month after Kindle books became available, said Seattle's electronic - resources librarian Kirk Blankenship.

At the Seattle public - library system, e-book borrowing rose 32 % in the month after Kindle books became available, said Seattle's electronic - resources librarian

At the same time, if you do not have a device which you receive Internet service, you can always participate in our Traffic School Riverside course by borrowing a friend or family member computer, going to your local library, Internet café, or anywhere there are public computers that also provide Internet access.