Sentences with phrase «how library users»

The leader of the COSLA task force, Oregon State Librarian Jim Scheppke, writes: «State librarians across the country have been looking for ways to improve how library users discover and use library resources, especially e-books.

Not exact matches

Users of the IKEA program manually place cupboards, cookers and sink units from an on - screen library to see how they will fit into their kitchen.

For example, when a user is on a shared network such as a library or coffee shop, she may be exposing sensitive data such as a username, chat messages, what pages she views (and thus what profiles she is viewing), how she responds to questions, and more to an eavesdropper monitoring the wireless connection.

You can create libraries of accessible information, design training courses to teach users how to be successful and provide contextual learning to help users in the moment.

Most of the Kitengesa library's users are secondary school students, and they are eloquent about how it has helped their education and given them a measure of independence: «When teachers don't cover the whole syllabus, you can find a book and read it,» one student told me.

Hume Libraries celebrated the achievement of becoming Australia's first eSmart library with a number of activity hubs, providing users with free advice on setting up their own electronic devices, and access to leading cyber-safety experts who provided adviceon how to stay safe online.

The HOPSports «How To» video library is designed to help the HTS user master various components of the HOPSports Training System.

Who has a library card, where they live, and how they can be reached are the primary elements that make up their user data, as well as what resources they've accessed.

3M developed a device that was initially thought to be based on an early txtr model e-reader, but it is its own proprietary machine intended to limit the capabilities of the e-reader in order to prevent theft and black marketing, as well as to make it entirely user friendly for the wide variety of computer knowledge and know - how of a broad audience of library patrons.

Funded by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services, the project teaches New York City library staff how information is shared online, what risks users commonly encounter, and what libraries can do to better protect patron privacy.

Part of our series about how libraries are using Pinterest to reach their users.

This email will provide users with a step by step tutorial on how to transfer your library from Sony to Kobo.

I can see how unregistering would be useful for Kindles available in public places like a library or hotel, but now that Kindles have parental controls that allow users to restrict access to the Kindle store it seems rather pointless.

How will that lead to a better experience for libraries as OverDrive customers and for their users?

Not only are we bringing access to the user, but it also is an example of how the role of a library can easily be integrated into our daily lives, which complements the standard brick - and - mortar library experience.

No one knows for sure how much that Venn diagram overlaps, but my guess is many KU users tended to get their books from libraries, not bookstores, before Kindle Unlimited became available.

While reviewing the iriver Story HD and getting a closer look at how the Google ebookstore works, I think that Google should add the option to let users upload their own ebook library into Google eBooks, similar to Ibis Reader where you can upload DRM - free ePub ebooks to your library.

But just as the DDA model has challenged libraries, publishers, and vendors to rethink traditional methods of buying and selling, asking all sides to place their trust in the user's ability to drive purchasing, so, too, has the idea that books in digital format being grouped together and sold as a package required all involved to further rethink how to amass content as efficiently and logically as possible.

Libraries will also continue to experiment with how those collections are built until their needs can be matched with the business needs of publishers, aggregators, and vendors and, more important, until users are given what they need.

Users are bombarded with ads about how easy e-books are and how they should have a NOOK, Kindle, or iPad, but in reality using these tools is only easy when you are buying titles, not trying to borrow them from the library.»

• All your favorite magazines in one convenient app: All titles in your personalized library are read through one easy - to - use app, with a common navigation method and consistent user interface throughout, so you can focus on the content and not how to use the app.

However, the library is committed to giving those materials the same look - and - feel as owned materials, as far as users are concerned — and he showed an example of how owned and PDA items appeared identical in the user interface.

Again I say approach Jeff Bezos and seriously see how libraries can buy e-books from Amazon at the prices paid by Kindle owners; iPad users, etc..

How about instead of congratulating the competition for their success, why don't you guys actually try to give your users incredible games as well and actually have a library that's competitive?

Assuming academic host institutions have financial resource constraints, and assuming academic libraries are equally constrained, how might these libraries attract funding adequate to meet the expectations of their users?

My bottom line is simply this: as a director of a law library which, like most others, will never have enough money to buy everything our users would like us to have, how can I justify spending money on a title which we have online (and in many cases, as with my two examples, for free).

How can we remain relevant and even advance our libraries and services in ways that anticipate our users» needs, not just react to financial constraints?

For libraries and organizations looking to share e-book resources, the Pew numbers indicate that users will not only need to understand «how to» borrow; but also be sold on the utility of lending over buying.

How then does one make eBooks as accessible as possible to library users?

In our experience, the bigger your library is, the slower many DLNA devices tend to operate and the user interface that is built into the receiver has a lot to do with how easy it is to access network media.

As far as gaming is concerned, the library is still quite bare, but we still look forward to seeing how this second screen experience on Chromecast might be able to benefit the daily user.

Once a library has been shared it will update automatically when new photos are added; based on how users have set the library to save content.

Spotify is one of the excellent streaming music services which provides users large content of music library and pleasant listening experience, and you may wonder how to get it to Kodi.

Whether you are a premium user who have a large music library on Spotify, or a free user who can listen to Spotify music for free online, you may wonder how to import Spotify music to VLC for offline playback whenever you want, or when Spotify Music app uninstalled from your machine.

In some libraries, he or she may answer routine questions, teach patrons or users how to use resources, and plan programs.

They also train library users on how to use different types of media and the various methods of extracting information in the library.