Sentences with phrase «by public library users»

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The various proposals are to require filters: a. on all public library computers all the time b. on all public library computers with an «on / off switch» activated by the user c. only on public library computers that children must use d. on no public library computers at any time http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-15-4-a-young-people-and-the-internet-issues-of-censorship-and-free-expression

Used by many of the country's top public, K - 12 school and academic libraries, Axis 360 offers a fully accessible platform for library users to find, check out and read digital titles on their phones, tablets and ereader devices.

OverDrive, whose ebook borrowing app continues to be the top - rated large - scale lending app by iOS and Android users, has enjoyed a fairly solid run as not only a content provider to academic and public libraries, but also in other ways.

Rainie said that the survey let users «self define» what was meant by library — which could include commercial libraries like the Amazon's Kindle Lending Library and programs from public libraries.

Admittedly, public libraries are usually tax - dollar supported, but academic libraries are funded by grants, endowments, and the users» own direct tuition dollars.

University press materials are often overlooked by selectors in public and school libraries because there is an underlying assumption that materials associated with academic imprints will be far too specialized and outside the interests of school and public library users.

Records related to registration and circulation of library materials which contain names or other personally identifying details regarding the users of public, private, school, college, technical college, university, and state institutional libraries and library systems, supported in whole or in part by public funds or expending public funds, are confidential information.

In fact, there is already «digital loan» software in wide use by public libraries that does not bother to impose any DRM on e-books, opting instead to automatically delete the books after the load period has expired.17 While users could defeat this by digging up and copying the underlying file, most users don't bother, just like most Netflix subscribers don't bother to copy the DVDs they rent, despite the ready availability of free software that can accomplish that goal.

For example, among library users, 85 % of immigrant Latinos say that offering a quiet, safe place to spend time, read or study is a «very important» service offered by public libraries for themselves and their families.

The Library and Research Center of the NMWA aims to educate and inform the public about the contributions of women to the visual arts by sharing its resources with library users and visitors.

In this digital information age, I don't think our «public» law libraries (law school and law society libraries) are the first place a citizen would think to go to access legal information; and I wonder if our libraries» maintenance of expensive print subscription services — like published law reporters and law digest services — is justified when these print resources are no longer used by our own «expert» users (students, faculty and practising lawyers), are incomprehensible and effectively inaccessible to the non-expert public, unaffordable, and increasingly unmanageable.