Sentences with phrase «by a library system»

«The population of adults without a high school diploma is as high as 60 percent in some of the geographic areas served by our library system,» says John Szabo, the City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, which serves over four million people.
The ultimate goal by the library system is to get 10,000 families online.
Agree on the sending directly to the Kindle via Wi - FI, although that might be one of those things that vary by library system.
A small number of copies of a book will be bought by a library system, not a single library.

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The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.
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The new budget doubles the program appropriation to $ 770 million, and expands the funding eligibility list to include facilities owned by school districts, housing authorities, library systems, fire districts and private non-profit colleges and universities.
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.
The analysis, by the House of Commons library, showed George Osborne's plans to change the tax credit system would cost 754,900 families earning between # 10,000 and # 20,000 a year up to # 2,184 next year.
Any proposal for a special library taxing district by the Buffalo and Erie County Library System would require the Erie County Legislature to approve a home rule message, pursuant to Article IX section 2 of the New York State Constitution.
Joined by library officials and fellow state lawmakers, Senator Kennedy announced the state has directed $ 617,970 in construction and improvement grants to the Downtown Central Library, as part of the overall award of $ 740,000 to a total of four libraries in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System.
All 37 libraries in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System will participate in Library Awareness Month in April by offering a variety of free programming for all ages.
Jack Connors, chairman, Board of Trustees, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski expressed their appreciation, stating: On behalf of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System we want to thank Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz for recommending an increase of $ 415,867 * to libraries in his 2014 proposed budget through funds generated by growth in the equalized full value property tax base.
Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski expressed her appreciation, stating: On behalf of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System we want to thank Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz for recommending a county funding increase of $ 451,766 (2.0 %) to libraries in his 2015 proposed budget through funds generated by growth in the equalized full value property tax base so there is no increase in the property tax rate.
Hudson Companies, in partnership with Marvel Architects, plans to build a 36 - story tower, which will hold 139 condo units and a 21,500 - square - foot library operated by the Brooklyn Public Library system.
With the school year beginning, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System reminds you that one of the simplest ways to support a child's academic success is by using your local library.
Again this year, the annual public hearing on the proposed Erie County budget was dominated by cultural agencies and the library system.
Built by the city of Syracuse in 1905, the building first came into the county's possession in 1976 when the county's system took over operation of the city's libraries.
Some of the technology - focused changes the Assembly pledged to implement include making the functionality of the legislature's bill - tracking system available to the public; creating a web portal that includes all information related to bills, including committee actions and evaluations by outside groups; the creation of a C - Span like legislative television channel; making the content of the legislative library searchable online and modernizing the Assembly's phone system to include digital voicemail boxes.
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.
«Lerner's creation of combinatorial libraries of antibodies enables the construction of immunological repertoires far superior to those produced by the human immune system
Methods: The increased bandwidth was achieved by consolidating IO on an optimal number of processors, aggregating writes into large chunks of data, and making additional improvements in the file system and parallel IO libraries.
Hinxton DNA libraries were amplified by PCR in quintuplicates for an initial 13 cycles (AmpliTaq Gold, Life Technologies), followed by pooling and purification of the PCR replicates with the Agencourt AMPure XP system.
For the first time, this «a la carte» offering will allow publishers to selectively choose from Viximo's core services including access to its premium content library produced by Viximo's network of 3,000 independent creators, an interactive digital storefront, merchandise payment systems and detailed analytics.
Desperate for money, Mary takes a job as a clerk at the small branch library where Judy works, but is flummoxed by the complexities of the Dewey decimal system.
With the success of these libraries, the company expanded by offering digital sample CD - ROMs for the Emu Emulator IIIx, Emulator IV, synthesizer programming for Waldorf Electronics and Emu Systems, and custom sound effects design for video, film, radio and television.
Nintendo system by that time will have a strong library and won't be so far behind in specs and still can compete with Sony & Microsoft head on.
The impetus behind creating an after - school system in Providence started with the mayor, David N. Cicilline, who jump - started the process by bringing together all middle school principals, directors of city recreation centers, and the heads of the public libraries.
Led by advanced doctoral students, the supplement to orientation, which stands for «Graduate Research and IT Preparation,» homed in on technical research skills, such as how to navigate e-journals at Gutman Library and through the University - wide library system.
According to founder Heather Chirtea, by the end of 2008, users will have access to a shared book - review library, an online address book, and a rating system for lesson plans — and the site will give monthly grant awards to teachers with the top - rated plans.
It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»
An LMS with a wide API and Integration library makes it possible to automate some of the routine LMS data exchange tasks by integrating it with the organization's third - party HRIS, HRMS, employee database, or any other system.
Gardner provided leadership for statewide initiatives such as Texas» higher education planClosing the Gaps by 2015, the college and university electronic library resource sharing consortium, the Texas Accountability System for Higher Education, and the Texas Public Education Information Resource, which includes information on all students enrolled in Texas public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in Texas.
By a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents selected MaryEllen Elia, the recently fired superintendent of Hillsborough County, Florida, to head the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and serve as President of USNY which, in addition to overseeing the entire public K - 12 education system of 7000 schools, oversees more than 240 public and private universities, 7000 libraries, the state archives, special schools for the hearing and visually impaired, over 750,000 licensed professionals, and over 200,000 certified public school teachers.
Our school system's philosophy regarding school libraries — and their place at the heart of student learning — is affirmed by a staffing model, which ensures that all schools are staffed by a full - time certified school library media specialist.
If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.
In each case, the system indexes music and arranges it in the onscreen music library by artist, album, and genre.
The library system, dubbed BiblioTech, proposes to make thousands of e-books available for county residents both online and at a 5,000 - square - foot physical location on the South Side of the county, according to a statement issued by Bexar County officials.
You can now add self - publishing to the libraries arsenal via a new system developed by Fastpencil and Recorded Books.
The 3M Cloud Library system by Baker and Taylor has been embraced by hundreds of libraries in the US.
About 3M Library Systems 3M Library Systems is committed to helping libraries thrive by providing cutting edge technologies including RFID, automated materials handling (AMH), self check and security solutions, as well as our latest innovation 3M Cloud Library, the fastest growing eBook Lending Service.
By default, the library system only allows you to search for one specific thing at a time.
By purchasing together, the system was able to buy more ebooks than each would have been able to afford individually, and the project demonstrated to administrators that the libraries are working together to find creative solutions.
Ebook provider ebrary announced this morning that it has now added the Boston Library Consortium to its growing list of library systems that rely on the company to make publishers» titles available for online reading by its member patrons.
Overdrive is currently the largest system used by libraries to facilitate the lending of eBooks, Audiobooks, Videos and more.
These systems are designed to simplify librarians lives, by reporting on checkouts, sales, and all aspects of daily library life.
You can borrow e-books from many public libraries in the United States, but the process is clunky — because it entails using a system provided by a third party, Overdrive — and you can't read them on a Kindle device or any of the Kindle apps.
Since then, eSentral ebook lending system which is known as ELIB, has been vastly used by libraries in Malaysia, including National Library of Malaysia.
A product bearing the same model number was found in GFXBench's results library earlier this month, with the benchmark suggesting the tablet will be powered by the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm's high - end system - on - chip commercialized in a wide variety of Android flagship smartphones released over the course of 2017.
Renewing members will be sent participation agreements that reflect their level of service and the support provided by their regional library system.
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