Sentences with phrase «discussion of digital libraries»

There were rumours last year that Waterstones might release its own ereader, which sprang from managing director James Daunt's discussion of digital libraries last year as a guest on BBC Radio 4's...

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In interactive presentations, panel question - and - answer sessions, and small group discussions, you will dive into big questions, such as: What opportunities — digital and otherwise — exist for libraries to become architects and facilitators of intellectual community in new and innovative ways?

They can get enrolled in a course of their choice, communicate with tutors, participate in group discussions, refer to the prerecorded resources from the digital library and remarkably improve their learning experience.

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It is well known for its online mentoring services Ask Dr. Math, Problems of the Week, and Teacher2Teacher, as well as its professional discussion forums and community digital libraries such as MathTools and Financial Education in the Math Classroom.

Out of those discussions, Morales pushed to expand MyOn, a digital library program piloted at Ramona, and Accelerated Reader, a comprehension assessment tool used in several schools, to all schools in the district.

This means that many people have a stake in the future of libraries, and as the digital age advances, there is much discussion about where they are headed.

Keeping in the library vein of things, there was a meeting earlier this month in San Francisco where more discussions were held concerning the founding of a digital public library.

Leaders from top library companies weighed in on this issue during an hour - long discussion held before a gathering of publishers, booksellers, and librarians, aiming to debunk lingering misunderstandings about ways in which libraries affect retail sales of ebooks and digital content, and to inform publishers of new tools that have been developed to market, manage, and even sell digital content through libraries.

I especially appreciate your inclusion of the poverty statistics, information that should be a factor in every single discussion about e-books / e-readers / digital initiatives that library workers have.

LJ's third annual Ebook third annual ebook summit «The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks, and Beyond» featured insightful presentations and lively discussions on topics ranging from ebook discovery, how ebooks have affected collection development strategies, the growth of etextbooks, and a post-mortem on the industry's response to the Research Works Act early this year.

The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it became apparent that the biggest growing concern in academic law libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.