Sentences with phrase «good old libraries»

The most important one being that a library should now be called an «Information Resource Center, or IRC», at least at Orrick... That is a new one for me: I knew I had an administrative assistant rather than a secretary, I had heard about collateral damages rather than murdered civilians, etc. but I am a bit sad to have the good old libraries R.I.P.!

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«I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on «Beauty and the Beast» and have a better library than she had,» Bennett says, referring to the 1991 Walt Disney movie, which he watches with his four - year - old daughter, Austyn Jett.

It may be silly, but then getting paid minimum wage to read books when one is 18 years old ain't a bad gig, and this man and the library he led and the town which made this library possible are irreplaceable factors in both making and preserving important things like the opportunity to read good (or not so good) books in quiet solitude.

The third floor also contained beautifully intricate and detailed ship models under glass display, many dark oil paintings of old Galveston's founders, and a room containing the personal library of one of Galveston's best who was unfortunately killed in Vietnam.

Maintaining a growing library of books that you've read (whether it's on your Kindle or iPad or, you know, one of those actual «shelves» that old mansions in the movies have), is a good habit to get into at any age.

One of my favorite things to do is hit up a good used book store or library book sale and buy stacks of older food magazines to raid for recipes.

Sure, there's always going to be good news to combat the bad — for instance, watch this inspiring video about a 9 - year - old girl in India who runs a thriving library that serves the kids in her community — but lately, it's been harder and harder to find the light in what has quickly become a rather dark time for America.

It should become a must - have for LGBTQ parents and their older children as well as for schools and libraries interested in supporting them.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

Take this short quiz to understand how to build the best possible home library for your infant to 2 - year - old.

Let's envision a new library system that might be a bit leaner than the old one but one that is better equipped to serve the people of Erie County in the years ahead.

He began amassing a genetic library of hundreds of mushroom strains — gathered on hikes through the old - growth forests of the Northwest and on trips to Europe, Asia, South America and Australia — that could be used for environmental as well as medicinal healing.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

An almost 30 year old paper though — that's pretty good — I'll look it up next time I'm near the library... — gavin]

News Of course, my favourite games is a good old university libraries have rich collections of books Oxford and.

A good addition to the Switch library that, unfortunately, doesn't provide a good incentive for old players to come back to it for one last, third time.

The first original series for CBS All Access, a $ 5.99 - a-month streaming service that features current CBS network shows as well as an extensive library of older series, The Good Fight will, among other things, feature Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) uttering a word we never heard on The Good Wife.

Raven Travel Studios clearly has a lot of love for classic 16 - bit platform games, but can its old school platform homage to Super Ghouls»n' Ghosts possibly live up to the source material or even stand up to the best among the current Switch library?

These games as well as Sega's previous PSP offerings make for an excellent, established library on the year - old Vita.

The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.

Kino's licensing deal with MGM (the current MGM entity, which is largely made up of United Artists productions; the grand old MGM studio library belongs to Warner) gives them access to the new high - definition masters from a portion of the catalog as well as access to elements to create new HD masters, plus access to select supplements from previous disc releases.

Showing older students how to use the Google search engine tools (http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/#0vBxYjxrxsqb) as well as how to use your library's digital learning databases are important steps to preparing our students to learn how to find quality information with ease.

No, we're not talking about the good, old - fashioned library.

«The pilot offers access to these brand names and more, with the benefit of insight on what has performed best in the consumer market and what will generate the most circulation for Cloud libraries... Macmillan can benefit from our community of engaged collection development librarians who talk up great books — old and new — across social networks.»

Though respondents ages 16 - 29 were more likely than those ages 30 and older to agree that «public libraries have not done a good job keeping up with newer technologies» (43 % vs. 31 %), a majority of younger Americans (52 %) disagreed with that statement overall.

I've been a fan of Jennifer Weiner's ever since I discovered an old paperback of Good in Bed in my college library's popular reading section.

Given my unquenchable thirst for material to read, this made my fellow bookworms and the public library an excellent resource for extending my reading pleasure via good, old borrowing.

It's not only because the library still clings to the spine (pardon the pun) of its institution, which lies in the not so modern, good old fashioned pages of yester - year.

I have used a kindle before but had to trash it coz the screen got spoilt, another issue was the space... if you have lots of old PDF «s, as well as an ever increasing library of ebooks then you would want the storage space.

There are older apps for BlackBerry and Mac that will give access to your library as well, but they don't work with LendMe at this time.

Teen Read Week is all about encouraging teen readers to go to the library and get lost in a book, but it's also a good time to remind adult readers that the YA shelves have plenty of engaging books that will suit the reading preferences of an older audience.

As much as I would love to have one of those library rooms like you see in old murder mystery movies (you know, the ones with the ladders on rails that slide around the room), being able to carry several volumes with me, or store them on a DVD would be even better.

From the pictures you posted, I think you're well on your way to having the kind of old - fashioned library you described.

For those not in one of the large markets initially supported (including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Dallas - Fort Worth), there are a few other updates to enjoy: a larger library of old NBC shows (so if you miss Knight Rider as much as you should, your patience has now been rewarded), and added AirPlay support (which is good for those using iOS devices, with no word on a target for Chromecast support).

Last week, Good e-Reader posted an article about one of the most innovative redesigns in the US, the award - winning rebuilding of the McAllen, Texas, public library out of an old, abandoned Walmart store.

On the one hand, Google is a well - known brand with lots of money and talent, they have a huge library of e-books, and they offer unprecedented interoperability amongst multiple e-book devices (for anyone out there who happens to own a Nook Color, a Kobo, and an old Sony E-Reader, you're probably off buying e-books from Google already).

Although the old - school way of borrowing remains a useful and viable way to check out some titles, one of the more useful aspects in making the switch from dead - tree books to an e-reader should be the ability to easily borrow e-books from public libraries as well.

Additionally, 16 - 17 year - olds (as well as 30 - 49 year - olds) are more likely than others to have used the library to borrow books in the past year.

At public and private schools, scouting troops, special needs groups, local libraries, various community youth organizations as well as adult organizations, the Humane Society of Greater Miami teaches the young and old appropriate lessons about kindness to animals, empathy, responsible pet care and the causes and results of pet overpopulation.

The pub style food served in the fabulous old library was great for a casual dinner and the breakfast served in the restaurant well done.

Make sure to keep an eye out for easter eggs and not - incredibly - subtle references to Monkey Island and other adventure games, as well as just some good old nerd jokes and 80s references sprinkled throughout the dialogue, the background, and even the titles of books in the library.

This style of gameplay is still very well received which is a plus for a game that is eleven years old and will no doubt help to catapult this game into many Steam libraries.

If you're looking for a dungeon crawl light on story or character, you could do worse, but with its own library of RPGs as well as those from older consoles, a Vita owner could also do much better.

A good addition to the Switch library that, unfortunately, doesn't provide a good incentive for old players to come back to it for one last, third time.

It delivers a fresh and unique art style that maintains the old school feel of the 16 bit games, a soundtrack that actually puts even the other Zelda games to shame and gameplay so well designed and fun that it should definitely be a fixture in every 3DS owners game library.

I think it's fair to say that early 3D shooters have aged about as well a pot of week - old yogurt in a greenhouse on a hot day, so the driving force behind sales is likely going to be nostalgia, alongside the novelty value of having it in your library.

That honour belongs to the plain old PlayStation 4 Slim, because most people don't own a 4K TV yet, are only going to want to shell out on one console and will want the best library of titles to play with it.

«We can effectively feel a little bit more like we see on PC, where I can still go back and run my old Doom and Quake games that I used to play years ago but I can still see the best 4K games come out and my library is always with me.

Depending on the price, we're hopeful that library will tackle a large collection of old - school titles and, even better, be included right out of the box.

The good news is that the 2DS will play all 3DS games available, as well as the older DS library as well.