Sentences with phrase «digital library books»

What does it mean if students can't take their digital library books or textbooks home?

Supposedly this should mean that you would be able to use these devices with digital library books.

Digital library books via Overdrive do not appear to be working at this time.

I've given up on just searching for Alexandria's digital library books in categories I want.

And via improved WiFi availability and otherwise, we could make digital library books more accessible than now for students and others in high - poverty neighborhoods and remote rural areas — «book deserts,» as some call them.

Sony also said it's partnering with OverDrive, a company that distributes electronic books to libraries, so Reader users will be able to «check out» free digital library books that expire at the end of the lending period.

Overdrive makes all of its digital library books available in the Kindle format, something 3M does not.

3M, Overdrive, and Axis 360 are charged exorbitant amounts of money for the public to be able to borrow digital library books.

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.

Not exact matches

A portable charger means I have access to my digital library of books, emergency phone calls, emails, music, and more at all times during the day, so I don't waste even a little bit of free time.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

In the nineteenth century, it was possible to steal a book, but with digital technologies, you can steal the entire library.

From a bank of computers at a small - town library to mammoth case - law books piled on wooden tables at a university, today's libraries must straddle the analog and digital worlds.

The Cushing Academy, a New England co-ed prep school founded in 1865, is phasing out its library's 20,000 books and spending nearly $ 500,000 on a new digital «learning center».

Did you know that most local libraries have copies of digital books to rent out for free?

Having a library of digital books in a mobile or tablet device is easy compared to having a library of physical books.

Books That Grow offers a diverse digital library with texts that can be read at three to five levels of difficulty.

Edutopia blogger Heick suggests eight ways for teachers to prevent summer learning loss in the English language arts, including library dates, digital book clubs, and student blogs about topics that matter to them.

International Childrens Digital Library An international library with nearly 2000 books online, in 39 languages.

Book that you remember reading over and over during childhood: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Currently reading: Bibliotech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey The thing that drew you to it: This past March, I attended the Ed School's professional development institute Library Leadership in a Digital Age where John [Palfrey], a former Harvard colleague at the law library, challenged us to create new and different partnerships, including those outside of academia, as we transition to a digital future and redefine the role and work of lLibraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey The thing that drew you to it: This past March, I attended the Ed School's professional development institute Library Leadership in a Digital Age where John [Palfrey], a former Harvard colleague at the law library, challenged us to create new and different partnerships, including those outside of academia, as we transition to a digital future and redefine the role and work of libDigital Age where John [Palfrey], a former Harvard colleague at the law library, challenged us to create new and different partnerships, including those outside of academia, as we transition to a digital future and redefine the role and work of libdigital future and redefine the role and work of librarieslibraries.

In 2013, when Studio H middle - school students told her that REALM needed a library, she and her colleagues had them design and build it themselves, starting with unique X-shaped shelving units that formed the basis of a successful Kickstarter campaign — which raised enough money for building materials, books, periodicals, and digital subscriptions.

Responsibilities include: • Create and develop various products including our curated digital publications (Spotlights), e-books, quizzes, and topical emails • Create email blasts delivering our content to our audience • Build audience segments for targeted promotions and propose new methods of audience outreach • Promote our products through social media and newsletter campaigns • Assist with collection and reporting of lead generation and revenue data to help inform future promotional campaigns • Conduct research on various aspects of the digital publishing and education media worlds to help determine future strategic focuses • Help with optimizing campaigns around testing and search engine optimization • Assist with fulfillment of book distribution partnership agreements with digital libraries

There's also information about student discipline, attendance library books, digital device - to - student ratios, and classroom wireless internet availability.

The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full - text articles, full - textbooks, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet; and provide an easy - to - use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other library materials for free from participating Michigan libraries.

Amazon.com is the largest digital library on the planet, user can download new titles to your electronic reader without ever going to a book store.

Two questions: (1) Why would you even care about selling your books to libraries, much less their lower - priced digital versions?

Books from the Connect store were terribly expensive, and there was too much pressure to own digital titles, rather than rent them out, like a for - pay library model.

This is partly due to tight budgets but also stems from concerns by publishers and authors about how — indeed whether — libraries should lend digital editions of their books.

A plan to create a vast digital library by scanning millions of books without explicit copyright permission has been thrown out in a long - awaited ruling issued today by New York... Read more >

Readers can then browse and borrow books from their friend's digital libraries through the service.

e-Sentral is a stand alone digital book platform which ranges from authoring tool to end user application and supply ebooks via multiple sales channel including libraries in South East Asia.

Just like Apple's ipod changed the way we listen to music, the Kindle is revolutionizing the book world, offering easy - to - use hand - held personal digital libraries.

First Chapter Plus publishes and distributes a monthly e-catalog, which includes the first chapters of print and digital books, mp3 clips of audio books plus all the essential information to thousands of opt - in subscribers such as libraries, book stores, media, readers, bloggers, and reviewers.

The company remains the largest force in the library world when it comes to handling the loaning out of digital books and audiobooks.

The revised terms will instead offer libraries the digital edition, the day the book comes out.

As eBooks become pricier libraries offer great digital loaning as well as curation management on their online catalogs for physical books.

Libraries have traditionally been a destination to borrow books, digital content and to train the community via various outreach programs.

Only this year did major libraries in Canada start to implement the digital system and Canada only accounts for 10 % of all checked out books.

Gale Virtual Reference Library, part of Cengage Learning, has launched its Usage - Driven Acquisition model, or UDA, which will allow libraries to purchase digital books based on how often and how much they are actually used, as opposed to licensing the ability to offer the titles.

Most consumers are totally unaware they can get free digital books from the library, according to... [Read more...]

The new program first started off with the St. Paul Library and provided library patrons with a myriad of very intuitive options to facilitate borrowing digital books.

3M spoke to GoodEReader at Digital Book World in January and demonstrated its library - specific e-reader, a pared down device that libraries can let patrons checkout.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

We talked to many of the leading digital publishing companies focused on the modern library, such as 3M, Overdrive, Zinio, Recorded Books, and a few others.

Omaha is not the first library to go purely digital and forgo carrying print books.

I would say that libraries that lend out digital books do not directly hinder online retailers that sell the books, because they are not in the position to buy them anyways.

While libraries have done well for themselves despite the dire predictions of doom following the digital revolution — largely by reinventing themselves as providers of other community needs while still making books their focus — there have been some highly ominous predictions for libraries in the current political climate.

Hoopla launched in 2013 as a digital offshoot of Midwest Tape, a company that has been distributing audio books and music CDs to public libraries for decades.

Random House and EBSCO have come to terms on a new digital book strategy for libraries.