Sentences with phrase «by going to a library»

You can get educated, for free, by going to a library.
At that time the World Wide Web was not up and running, so I had to do the research the hard way — by going to libraries, going to the stacks, finding books — especially in the QK 99 section on herbal medicine — and looking up all the various terms for chiles in the indexes of the books.

Not exact matches

Two, Dynamics has a huge library, and dedicated distribution channels, so like it or not, it's going to soon be viewed as a competitor by its biggest customers.
; then take a few college courses; go to a research library and read some books by historical scholars and articles in refereed academichistory journals.
If you wish to pursue this matter further, go to the library and get The Ways of Knowing, written by William Montague when he was a professor of philosophy in Columbia University.
Went to the library and borrowed Asian Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen.
To understand why Thomas now spends his Saturdays at a Kansas City library reading to children — one of many activities sponsored by his Third and Long foundation — you have to go back to his first meeting with Williams at Palmetto Junior HigTo understand why Thomas now spends his Saturdays at a Kansas City library reading to children — one of many activities sponsored by his Third and Long foundation — you have to go back to his first meeting with Williams at Palmetto Junior Higto children — one of many activities sponsored by his Third and Long foundation — you have to go back to his first meeting with Williams at Palmetto Junior Higto go back to his first meeting with Williams at Palmetto Junior Higto his first meeting with Williams at Palmetto Junior High.
Give your kids incentives to practice getting up early by making a fun breakfast or going to a morning activity at the library.
The link on your other blog goes to a publication library that doesn't allow access by the general public, so I can't look at that study myself, I have to take your word for it.
So by the time labor has come, it's not unusual for women to go two weeks past their due date because «babies aren't library books», but placentas do have expiration dates and they do stop functioning.
Even if you live in an area that doesn't offer childbirth classes - you can greatly benefit by going to a bookstore (online or otherwise) or even to the library and reading books on the subject.
Go to the library and bookstores and browse by subject area.
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De Blasio — who was introduced by former Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's granddaughter, Katherine — also said municipal identification cards will be available to all residents this year regardless of their immigration status, «so that no daughter or son of our city goes without bank accounts, leases, library cards, simply because they lack identification.»
For years, he says, he told the story of how he had gone «deep into the bowels» of Harvard's library to find a book by his father about what should be done with Nazis «too unimportant to be hung at Nuremberg.»
Mary — Please go to your library and check out the book «Wheat Belly Total Health» by Dr. William Davis.
It's easy to write an encyclopedia of notes because it's all there, and some may think that by staying in the library all the time - that you're going to pass the test.
Wired, 2000: Not using online dating is like going to a library thinking that best books are only found by chance.
by Walter Chaw Tailor - made as a public service announcement for going to the library and reading the classics, The Pagemaster makes up for what it lacks in grace with an admirable and perhaps misplaced faith in its audience.
One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.
A few students are so motivated by the project that they go to the library after school to type!
«Increasingly, you're going to see open education projects become the leading publication outlet for educational material, because they're so flexible, they're so easy to maintain, and authors can have such a big impact by publishing their material with open access,» says Richard Baraniuk, founder of the open source content library Connexions.
I let my student who enjoyed poetry go to the library and get poetry books, and when he was upset, he would decompress by turning his feelings into free verse.
By having a library of content ready to go, it's easier for users to see what's available and continue their learning once they've completed a module or video.
Hit the library, stop by the independent bookstore on the corner, toss a few items in your AmazonSmile shopping cart (when you do, a portion of your purchase can go directly to Facing History), or start downloading to your e-reader.
We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren't already gone, as in California); to be increasing class sizes to 40 or 50 in Los Angeles and Detroit.
You can help support school libraries by writing your local representatives and asking them support them through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) For more information go to: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/eduleg/schoollibraries/esea
Even if a title goes out of print, the ISBN can not be reused since the title continues to be catalogued by libraries and traded by used booksellers.
Years later, Ned becomes a meteorologist and moves from New Jersey to Florida, while his sister goes to library school, still feeling the guilt and self - loathing brought on by her wish the night her mother died.
The concerns raised by some parties are that the ease of ebook borrowing to handheld devices will have a dramatic impact on libraries, specifically in a massive reduction of the numbers of patrons who need to actually go to their local community libraries.
I was going to comment in the other article and mention that the Smashwords titles are among the highest circing in the enki library created by Califa / Contra Costa County, but I didn't feel like logging in.
For example, 62 % of patrons find it totally unacceptable that they can borrow an ebook only by going onsite to the library.
My local library has OverDrive, and I never use it, because they treat e-books like print books: The library buys a limited number of copies, and each book can only be checked out by one patron at a time, so when I go to look for a book, it's never available.
Finally, they are going to launch consortia - friendly programs to enable Advantage titles to be migrated from individual libraries to shared collections, as permitted by publishers and suppliers.
Overdrive reported last week in an email to libraries that ebooks provided by publisher Hachette were going to increase by 220 % this October.
I only have access to the NYPL, but if your library is powered by OverDrive and you are interested in the Harry Potter e-books, it's worth going and checking out that library's collections.
One advantage of the Kindle Owners» Lending Library compared to borrowing from a friend or the library, however, is that you aren't as hamstrung by limits as far as selection goes.
Also Self - E claims «Over 50 percent of all library users go on to purchase ebooks by an author they were introduced to in the library
Two years after «standing up» to Amazon by handing Apple instant market share in the ebook space, and jumping through hoops to supply every other harebrained ebook startup with shoddily formatted content, with nary a thought given to device interoperability nor optimal user experiences, and in the wake of the # 2 domestic book retailer finally going bankrupt, libraries have seemingly become the one kid on the playground publishers think they can bully into submission.
Powered by OverDrive for its member libraries and documented in terms of impact on sales by Sourcebooks, the program is going to attempt to demonstrate once - and - for - all the effects of letting people borrow an ebook.
This goes against the entire mandate that libraries are funded by the public and in return loan books to inform, entertain and to educate.
I also want to know when by book becomes successful can I go with another publisher so that the book can get into schools and libraries with a new ISBN number?
You need to go to your library's website first which is powered by OverDrive.
This was posted by a librarian yesterday on the SW blog, and I think, goes to the point about some sort of quality control being needed by librarians: «I do the e-book purchasing for my library and I'm currently spending about $ 500 a month on Smashwords titles... HOWEVER:... «1.
Comics by ComiXology — This is my go - to reader, with a library of more than 50,000 digital comics and graphic novels.
However as time goes by Amazon may realize they are missing out — at present they are talking about coming to an arrangement with Overdrive [download platform company which supplies rentals to public libraries] to make their stock available to borrowers using other devices.
I received it, charged it, loaded up all by B&N content, but when I went to transfer library books, Adobe Digital Editions is not recognizing the Nook.
Of course, Brantley did clarify that statement by saying that we must first take away the death - blows to budgets as a consideration before we can say that things are going well in the public library sphere.
The lending interface is terrible — it essentially requires you to go through your digital library book - by - book — and if you can find a book that allows lending (good luck) the terms are onerous: you can lend a title
The lending interface is terrible — it essentially requires you to go through your digital library book - by - book — and if you can find a book that allows lending (good luck) the terms are onerous: you can lend a title only once for a term of only 14 days.
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