Sentences with phrase «city libraries as»
This is probably the biggest (as it is The National Library) public library in the country but I'm hoping to visit other city libraries as well.
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It's taxes collected by governments that provide us with the wide array of social services and infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, libraries and parks, safe streets and livable cities.
Sistrunk and 20 or so boys from his youth sports program recently marched outside the Chicago Public Library demanding that New York City artist Eric Fischl's oil painting Boys at Bat, which is hanging in the library's cultural center as part of a touring baseball art exhibition, be removed.
Bring the kids to the Boston Athenaeum this weekend as the library is transformed into a miniature city.
«As a native New Yorker, I know how important libraries are for families across our city, and I'm honored to now be in a position to help make them work even better for Queens» Mr. Koerner said.
As Mr. Mahaney mentioned, this library, which opened April 1, 2006 on the City's East Side at Jefferson and Utica, directly replaced the aging N. Jefferson Branch.
Six libraries in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System each received 100 new children's picture and story books as a result of the gift from the Brownstone Book Fund, a private organization in New York City that promotes early reading and a love of books, encouraging parents and children to read together.
«We are so pleased the Nickel City Professionals have selected the Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries as their organization of choice to promote and fundraise for,» said Library Director Mary Jean Jakubowski.
As cities, states close parks, libraries, senior centers etc., $ 600b.
The laundry list of recommendations went on to suggest a merger of the Brooklyn Public Library with other library systems as Adams believed «the public library system [in New York City] is not a proper working model» and how libraries have «suffered due to inconsistent and unpredictable funding streams.»
The city launched the service the following January, with the city's public libraries serving as hubs for enrollment.
Quinn, who is widely credited as the architect of a deal that helped save teaching jobs and keep fire companies and libraries open during the latest round of city budget negotiations, will be spending Wednesday on a victory lap celebrating the saved services.
Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited the firehouses, as well as major cuts to libraries, after - school programs and the Chief Medical Examiner's office, as her top concerns.
The mayor is requiring the NYPD to trim overtime as part of the new budget, but the robust income of recent years enables de Blasio to add not just cops but library hours and gym teachers and an extra week of city beach openings.
«This library, as you can see, is going to be one of the most beautiful, one of the most architecturally significant libraries not only in Queens, but in the city, if not the nation,» Van Bramer said.
Voter registration forms can be obtained at the Queens city Board of Elections office, at 126 - 06 Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens, as well as at libraries, post offices and most city government offices.
Avella would also seek to see changes to all three of the city's public library systems, changing the City Charter to list executives at the Queens, Brooklyn and New York public libraries as public servacity's public library systems, changing the City Charter to list executives at the Queens, Brooklyn and New York public libraries as public servaCity Charter to list executives at the Queens, Brooklyn and New York public libraries as public servants.
Be sure to stop by our curated library of dating advice and online dating content, specifically designed to answer general dating questions as well as more specific topics like how to propose and novel and fun date ideas in cities across the U.S.
For centuries libraries have been one of the hallmarks of major cities as well as minor ones.
As we wait patiently for the Wii U game catalogue to expand in numbers, there's no real reason why Lego City Undercover shouldn't become a part of your Wii U library.
Limiting himself to 11 of the New York Public Library's 92 branches, and returning continually to its fabled flagship building on Fifth Avenue opposite East 41st Street, Wiseman sifts through lectures, classes, Q&A s, policy meetings, tutoring sessions and stage performances to build a mighty case for the library as the city's social and intellectual lifeblood.
As always, we are never with any one story for very long, although there are a few threads to which the film keeps returning, none more significant than a staff meeting to determine how best to digitize the library's materials and boost online use in a city where many New Yorkers still don't have access to the Internet.
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.
Even though Stevens and Silberling maintain a few of Wenders's touches (the black trenchcoats, the angels» library hangout, the cacophony of human «thought voices») and touchstone lines (such as «I can't see you, but I know you're there»), City eventually veers from the source material and settles into familiar Tinseltown convention.
We open centers around the city to serve as safe havens for students using mostly non-union staff, community - based organizations, city parks and libraries.
When Education Policy Management (EPM) student Michael Dabrieo found himself working on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico with no Internet or libraries, 70 miles from the city and 12 miles from his mailbox as part of Teach For America (TFA) it could have been the end of his education career.
City officials last week said they would use the money to help close a $ 29 - million deficit in the city's $ 370 million budget projected for 1992 and to avoid cutting back as severely on police, parks, and librarCity officials last week said they would use the money to help close a $ 29 - million deficit in the city's $ 370 million budget projected for 1992 and to avoid cutting back as severely on police, parks, and librarcity's $ 370 million budget projected for 1992 and to avoid cutting back as severely on police, parks, and libraries.
On Friday 19 September, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation and the Telstra Foundation joined Hume City Council in celebrating Hume Libraries as the first public library service to complete the eSmart Libraries program and achieve eSmart Status.
A number of school boards, libraries, and city councils have implemented such policies as part of a cultural boycott to protest the system of apartheid, or racial separation, the report notes.
Rochester city schools receive one - third as much library funding as Monroe County suburban schools.
Proceeds will be used to purchase books for city school libraries about topics including the U.S. Civil Rights movement and biographies of contemporary leaders such as President - Elect Barack Obama.
«Students across the city rely on their neighborhood branch libraries as an extension of their academics, taking advantage of services such as our online tutoring and coding workshops, and this gift will allow us to further our efforts to help every student succeed.»
But I think it was inspiring to teachers across the country, and it showed the teachers, at least in one city, were not going to lie down and allow their kids to be in an overcrowded classroom with no arts, no library, and a lot of things they didn't have that Rahm Emmanuel's kids expect as part of their schooling.
Many libraries have also expanded into community centers, serving as unique gathering places in their towns and cities.
There is a city tradition, from the private tranquil libraries of stately homes such as North London's 17th - century estate Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath to the British Library's Reading Room in King's Cross — a place where the etiquette policy strongly discourages the presence of mobile phones entirely with tactfully placed signs.
«It's a paradox, celebrating the opening of a public library in one of the world's largest cities at a time when the ebook is gaining ground and the printed book as a format is now being questioned.
Immediately, this step resolves the concern from many librarians that a major city's rather large library system paying the same price as a more rural, «small town» library.
«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.
And yet, as an inquisitive traveler and enthusiastic bibliophile, no trip seems quite whole without books — to wit, in cities cosmopolitan and countryside bucolic, I find myself invariably drawn to bookstores and libraries.
According to an article in The Bookseller, in just the Birmingham area, the city council has proposed a # 1.65 million cut to the library system, of which # 50,000 is intended to be taken from its fund to purchase books, and an additional # 150,000 will be carved out of the fund to host public events, such as author appearances and book signings.
In 2010, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel planned to save money by eradicating almost three hundred vacant library positions in his city, as well as cutting the staff through lay - offs of an additional 284 existing employees.
Libraries such as Sutherland Shire Libraries and Somerset Libraries will be hosting drawing and cartooning classes (to name a few), while other locations may even be holding writing competitions — with councils like Randwick City Library having a contest with categories for kids as young as three!
Since 2000 in Ohio, 206 people lost their jobs as library media specialists in 128 school districts, according to Suellyn Stotts, media specialist at Grizzell Middle School in Dublin City Schools and past president of Ohio Educational Library Media Association.
Our library, and I will bless it forever, immediately jumped up to fill the void, hosting readings of orphaned authors (myself included) whose tours had already been scheduled with stops in Nashville, and in every way trying to responsibly tackle the problems we faced as a city in need of a bookstore.
When people outside the city wanted some of the scrolls the library would charge them a copious amount of money as a down payment and originals would be copied and sent out.
The city of Ansul was once known as a place of learning, with its schools, libraries and temples to many gods, but...
Most public libraries are on the smaller side, most of them well inland, and their local demographics may differ considerably from ocean - side metropolises with large creative classes such as Boston or New York City.
If the Washington Post or New York Times can do a national story on the inflated salaries of so many top city administrators in the context of public needs, such as those of K - 12 kids and other library patrons, then so much the better.
Notable events have included its kick - off in New York City's Central Park and the Library of Congress's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Patrons who visit the traveling ebook library can sample content from OverDrive's catalog of over one million titles, as well as streaming audio and video, audiobook downloads, and more.