Sentences with phrase «high use of libraries»

Despite their relatively high use of libraries, younger Americans are among the least likely to say that libraries are important.

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Ant Financial has already signed a memorandum of understanding with Rongcheng, whose residents will be able to pay their utility bills using Alipay and show their Zhima Credit score — if high enough — to obtain better health insurance and borrow library books and rent public bikes without a deposit.

Key elements of the Ripples experience include: • Wi - Fi enabled device that neatly fits onto a counter top with a small 8.5» x 10.5» footprint • Creates high quality images or messages on foam topped beer in just 10 seconds • Ripples uses malt - based ink, producing beer - based shades and maintaining the natural beer experience • Supports glasses up to seven inches tall • Ripples» provides content / images from its library of hundreds of images and messages.

At a recent Library Board meeting that drew City Council members, homeowners groups and other city leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facility.

Specifically, the research team used a miniaturized, high - speed technology to screen through sample libraries of 2,816 compounds already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for other uses.

They identified AM404 as a potential antiviral agent by screening the National Institutes of Health Clinical Collection, a library of small molecules that have been used clinically in humans, using a high - throughput screening system.

At the Supercomputing 93 conference in Portland, Oregon, last month the world's major manufacturers set a standard for High Performance Fortran, a programming language used for parallel computing, and published a library of standard instructions called the Message Passing Interface.

At TGen, Dr. Azorsa established a functional genomics platform of high throughput RNA interference screening using siRNA libraries.

The MSC is a core facility providing the use of high throughput screening technology (HTS), as well as expertise and reagents, necessary for the screening of the library of small molecules for biologically active compounds in a variety of readout systems.

The course gives a broad introduction to high throughput screening (HTS) that is technique used to identify biologically active small organic molecules through screening of compound libraries with the help of robust test systems and advanced instrumentation.

We have a variety of data, both from actual assemblies and simulation studies, which show that about 96 % of the reference human genome is addressable using this library and sequencing strategy, including a significant fraction of the high - copy repeat sequences in the genome.

We are currently working toward determining the molecular basis of these modifiers using a combination of recombinational mapping crosses and high - throughput sequencing of exome captured libraries generated from modifier strains.

Use our virtual showrooms and library of one million high - end products to Find unique gift ideas for men and women at Brookstone.

There's every reason to remake the film for the current generation of teens and twenty - somethings, Craig Brewer's version scripted by him and Dean Pitchford updated to the current year, but one in which the high - school kids barely use cell phones and only a few computers are in sight at the school library.

«Having interactive boards lets the media specialists and students use library materials to create questions and quizzes and develop entertaining ideas that will hopefully attract more patrons to the library media center,» reported Judy Serritella, an experienced elementary and high school media specialist who is coordinator of library media services for the Georgia Department of Education in Atlanta, Georgia

Teaching information literacy throughout the curriculum is a must from kindergarten to higher education, but the days of pouring through books in a physical library or even a slow library database are not what this generation is used to.

Notices about cellphone use are posted at the entrance to the library at East High School, where social media apps will be off - limits to students via the school's wifi network through the end of the school year.

The high school provided EBSCO databases for all of our library patrons and their families to use as well as NoodleTools accounts.

A prospective growth area is the use of the Beyond High School library to offer more testing preparation for students with post-secondary goals ranging from competitive colleges to vocational programs and the military.

Older adults, by contrast, are more likely to place a high level of importance on libraries» roles in their communities — even age groups that are less likely to use libraries overall, such as those ages 65 and older.

For libraries, the model can easily eliminate turnaways due to concurrent use, and provides libraries with a relevant tool to make the most out of high usage titles.

I agree that the model they have with services like Overdrive is somewhat problematic, more of a lease than ownership, and I agree that traditional publishers have been unreasonable here, but e-book lending is an extremely high growth, high use area for my library system.

Some of the data about actual library use was very positive, showing people's attitudes towards their public libraries — and therefore, the support for public libraries — at a steady high:

The high - point of Google Books is that being an online service, the user is able to access his e-book library by using any computer or device that is connected to the internet.

These high schoolers are more likely than other age groups to use the library, including for research and book - borrowing,» said Kathryn Zickuhr of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a co-author of the report.

Some groups are more likely to use libraries — including women, young adults and those with high levels of education

For instance, 72 % of high schoolers (ages 16 - 17) used the library in the past year, making them by far the most likely age group to have done so.

High schoolers were also most likely to have used the library for research purposes — 55 % used the library for research in the past year, compared with 40 % of all Americans.

This terminal boasts an ease of use that sets the bar higher than OverDrive ever could have hoped, a must for some library patrons.

Another example: by preventing concurrent lending, any library wanting to satisfy high demand at the start of a book's life will have to buy more copies rather than use all of its 26 loan «slots» efficiently when they are most needed (so more like a book).

And despite their generally higher levels of library use and the fact that most prefer to borrow books rather than purchasing them, 57 % say they visit bookstores regularly.

The most highly engaged library users are most likely to make frequent use of library websites: Roughly eight in 10 members of the highest engagement groups have used a library website in the past year, compared with 30 % of the general public.

The report also found that among large libraries in the U.S. (libraries that serve a population of 500,000 or more), Multnomah County Library has the highest collection turnover rate, or rate of use per item.

Among libraries in our population category (500,000 to 999,999), Multnomah County Library has the highest in - library materials use per capita — the number of books, journals, newspapers and other materials that patrons use in the library but do not check out.

We think that having professional, trained school librarians helping kids read at grade level - and ensuring that there are books for the most disadvantaged kids in their school libraries - is a high - impact use of our tax dollars.

As mentioned in our story about the «bookless library» BiblioTech in San Antonio and its use of SELF - e, the program is moving into high gear as libraries around the country sign on as subscribers to SELF - e's collections of independently produced ebooks.

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Though she was only nine when the tragedy took place, young American artist Bunny Rogers has questions about the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, and has used the school's cafeteria and library as jumping off points for entire bodies of work in the past.

The press will present copies of Bragdon's Projective Ornament and A Primer of Higher Space with supplementary content by Auerbach, and house a library of other texts that the artist has found to be of interest or use in her practice.

In a way, Greg had the same problem that the junior lawyer in the law library had: he wasn't adapting his speech appropriately to the situation by using a higher register — that is, a more dignified level of speech.

The situation is somewhat better in Western Canada, where the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) not only has established the Shared Print Archive Network (SPAN) in 2012 but is actively developing the archive, using the offsite, high - density storage facilities of the University of British Columbia, University of Alberta and University of Calgary to ensure preservation of the shared collections.

Traditional library metrics are less helpful for law firm libraries compared to public or academic libraries; for example, circulation statistics are often used as an indicator of library usage and what parts of the library collection are in highest demand.

With a powerful search engine and a library of advanced visualizations — including social networking, communication patterns, concept clustering and timelines — Radiance can aid organizations in a number of common use cases, including investigations, early data assessment and the identification of high - risk data, such as personally identifiable information.

Homework assignments were answered using local resources — the high school library WAS the public library for much of my childhood.

This problem has been masked by the skills of the professional legal researchers and presence of experts in the library, but there must be significant under use of high value content, though lack or awareness or forgetfulness.

«The end product is a library of high - value reports for REALTORS ® to use in assisting their clients and customers in making better - informed decisions when buying or selling property.