Sentences with phrase «from public school libraries»

These legal challenges come mostly from public school libraries.

I live in a state where a woman here is on a crusade to have the Potter books removed from every public school library.

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A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

Buffalo Schools Virtual Desktop Makes Schoolwork Accessible from Computers @ Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries

Marijuana stores would have been prevented from locations within feet of a house of worship, public library, public or chartered elementary or secondary school, state licensed day care center or public playground.

At the Homeschool Resource Center operated by the Seattle Public School District, home - schooled children can choose from a rotating menu of classes or just stop by to use the computer center or library.

Books Beyond Borders: Another collaboration between the school and public libraries is adapted from Reading Without Walls.

Library leaders from multiple settings and contexts including colleges, universities, professional schools, K — 12 schools, public libraries, research organizations, and historic preservation / archives

Suggestion: You may want to plan a class trip to your local library or seek assistance from your school or local public library librarian for this lesson.

This program is designed for library leaders from multiple settings and contexts including colleges, universities, professional schools, K — 12 schools, public libraries, research organizations, and historic preservation / archives.

WASHINGTON — In a carefully circumscribed venture into the sensitive area of book banning in public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that First Amendment guarantees limit the power of school boards to remove books from school libraries.

Schools, nurseries and libraries can benefit from the launch of a completely free downloadable Roald Dahl DAY party pack, thanks to a collaboration between YPO, the UK's largest public sector buying organisation, and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate responsible for publishing the world's number one storyteller.

These initiatives range from mobile gaming in after - school programs to high - tech public libraries that target youths.

Partnerships between the school library media specialist, classroom teacher, and children's librarian (from the local public library) were crucial to the success of this shared research project.

She resides in Princeton, N.J.) When Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush were President and Vice President, I was a child who walked from my Catholic elementary school on Princeton's Nassau Street to the public library on Witherspoon Street.

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is accepting applications from public schools and public libraries anywhere in the U.S for its mini-grants program.

Look Up to the Star's much - acclaimed astronomy Star Tours 2013 & 2014 have been sweeping the nation from coast to coast, involving a strong collaborative network of public libraries, schools and civic organizations and garnering record - breaking attendance.

Students select appropriately leveled books from both the school and local public libraries, and when they've finished reading a book, they take an assessment quiz that measures comprehension.

LibraryNow represents an historic partnership between the Milwaukee Public Library and Milwaukee Public Schools to provide free digital access to all the library's online resources to every MPS student from 1st - 12th grade.

A new proposal seeks to increase E-rate funding from $ 2.4 million to $ 3.9 million per year to update technologies in schools and libraries (PDF), particularly in disadvantaged communities, through fees paid by the public on telecommunications.

Our fellowship cohort includes educators from a range of K - 12 learning environments including public schools, charter schools, independent schools, public libraries, and more.

A few blocks from School 4, in a grim sign of a cash - strapped city where half the households report yearly income under $ 34,302, a public library sits dark with plywood boards covering the windows, closed until further notice.

As library specialists at Monticello High School in the Albemarle County Public Schools district in Albemarle, Virginia, we have seen the library evolve from a traditional, research - and reading - centered space that few students utilized to one where students and teachers flock to use the latest technology, collaborate on projects, and create content.

School and public librarians from around NEKLS participated in Library Journal's virtual summit «ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point» upstairs on September 29.

This data, compiled in part from its 6,500 public school library partners, shows that more students than ever before are using smartphones, tablets, and ereaders in the academic environment, with a 252 % increase in October in school library visits to the lending website from the same time a year ago.

This data, compiled in part from its 6,500 public school library partners, shows that more students than ever before are using smartphones, tablets, and ereaders in the academic... [Read more...]

As multivolume encyclopedias disappear from reference collections, this one - volume encyclopedia of information will continue to be useful in school, public, and academic libraries.

The people at our table were a fascinating bunch — they had worked everywhere from a school library, a public library, a community college library to a prison library.

We are staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks from public libraries and schools.

From June to November 2017 (only 5 1/2 months), the Digital Bookmobile held 69 events at public libraries and schools in 63 cities, 25 states, and 1 Canadian province.

EBSCO makes it easy to build a collection from a growing selection of best - selling, frontlist and award - winning e-books supporting academic libraries, school libraries, public libraries, medical, government and corporate institutions.

America's K - 12 students would benefit handsomely from a well - stocked national digital library system blended in carefully with school libraries and public libraries.

While many school districts and libraries have a policy honoring parents» wishes that their own children be given alternate assignments for class readings that conflict with their morals or religious beliefs, in far too many instances schools cave in to parental outrage and simply remove a book from class reading lists; when the angry mob gets loud enough or politicians up for re-election on the «family values» ticket need to make some noise, they've even resorted to pulling the access to the book, removing it from school and public libraries and classroom borrow shelves.

«And schools are benefiting from the huge success in eBook lending that public libraries have enjoyed over the past decade.»

Library usage has risen dramatically and other school / public library partnerships have resulted from this initiative.

Then make sure you have your book accessible to vendors: libraries (public and school) buy for their collections from library suppliers and library vendor catalogues.

The five schools were selected from a pool of more than 1,000, and were examined in depth, regarding the following characteristics: organization; collection; participation in committees; principal support; technology access, use, and integration; collaboration and teaching; impact; usage; promotion; collaboration with the public library; and strengths.

This document reports on the benefits received by students at four high schools that received supplemental funding from the Public Education Network to update their library media spaces.

Funded by the New York Life Foundation from 2003 - 2005, Revitalizing High School Libraries (RHSL) was a pilot program that allowed Public Education Network (PEN) and its member local education funds (LEFs) in Minneapolis, San Francisco and Tampa to update and refurbish library media centers in four high schools.

OverDrive, which provides a full catalog of ebooks for public and school libraries to lend their patrons to over 15,000 libraries, was stunned this week when Penguin Group demanded that all of their titles be pulled from OverDrive's catalog, claiming that it had «security concerns.»

Retired from school libraries after 30 - plus years, Phillies fan Sue Gooden is happily working part - time in the public library, where she regularly sees former high - school students with their children.

Cheryl Karp Ward, a library media specialist, has retired twice: once from public education as a school librarian; once from the corporate world as a teen specialist for collection development.

Kathleen McBroom has worked in public, academic, and school libraries, with students ranging from preschoolers through postgraduates.

Kathleen McBroom recently retired from a 40 - year career that spanned public, academic, and school library assignments.

The presence — and amount — of «swear words» in a book is still typically a deciding factor in whether a book is banned, especially from public libraries or schools.

And these 16 - 17 year - olds also led all other age groups in borrowing books, especially print books: 65 % of high schoolers who read a print book in the past year had checked one out from a public library in that time period, compared with 48 % of all print readers.

Titles published in the previous year are chosen by teen book groups from fifteen school and public libraries around the US.

Now they can download books from the Alexandria public library, not just the school library.

Just one of the five board members is from the public library world even though public and school libraries are the most common varieties.

Our roster of expert speakers and panelists presented innovative ideas and tools for and from libraries of all types — school, academic, and public, bringing a national library conference right to your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile device, complete with: