Sentences with phrase «in rural libraries»

Circulation per capita in rural libraries was higher than average compared to the US overall.

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The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

The Erie County Department of Social Services is partnering with ACCESS of WNY, Literacy Buffalo, SACRA, Matt Urban Center, Rural Outreach Center, Community Concern of WNY, and the Erie County Public Libraries in Springville, Kenmore, Cheektowaga, and Akron to provide this service.

National initiatives like the National Broadband Plan, as well as grants for hardware and software in schools and libraries, can help address the essential - tools gap that persists in some rural and low - income areas.

Perhaps public libraries in rural and regional areas could be enhanced or built to this standard.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

The Vietnamese project brings books and the know - how to establish libraries to rural communities, while the project in Thailand aims to improve the integration of the Patani Malay minority by providing teaching in their own language.

Companies receiving federal subsidies for connecting rural homes and businesses would now be required to offer competitive rates to schools and libraries in their service areas.

«Even if you're in the most remote, rural area, it is [now] possible to get connectivity for your schools and libraries,» Wheeler said.

While in the Peace Corps she helped build the only library in the rural community.

«Closing the school and library connectivity gap is a major, progressive step in ensuring that America's school - age students, particularly those in rural and remote communities, gain equitable access to Internet connectivity,» said Lucy Gettman, Deputy Associate Executive Director, Federal Advocacy & Public Policy, National School Boards Association.

Programs cuts are happening in the areas of music, business, library, math, foreign language, speech, extracurricular, and many rural students get only core classes and some vocational education.

She is a current board member for the Rural School and Community Trust and a former board member for the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET), the Education and Libraries Network Coalition (EdLiNC), and the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE).

This means that all schools large and small, urban and rural, public and private, brick and mortar or virtual, need to provide access to teaching expertise in the library as well as best resources, technologies and physical and virtual learning spaces to support learner needs as they evolve.

Suzanna grew up in rural South Carolina (really rural) and survived on her mother's library, local ghost stories, and the tall tales her father spun for his children's amusement.

In all cases, however, rural libraries significantly lag their counterparts in larger population areaIn all cases, however, rural libraries significantly lag their counterparts in larger population areain larger population areas.

In a finding that speaks to the vital role that libraries play, it was those libraries that serve rural communities that reported the highest book circulation numbers, largely due to the lack of bookstores in these communities and the unavailability of «one day delivery lockers» or Sunday delivery from online retailerIn a finding that speaks to the vital role that libraries play, it was those libraries that serve rural communities that reported the highest book circulation numbers, largely due to the lack of bookstores in these communities and the unavailability of «one day delivery lockers» or Sunday delivery from online retailerin these communities and the unavailability of «one day delivery lockers» or Sunday delivery from online retailers.

Overall, libraries report technology improvements — including nearly ubiquitous public wi - fi, growing mobile resources and a leap in e-book access — but the ALA's 2014 Digital Inclusion Survey also documents digital differences among states and an urban / rural divide.

First off, availability depends on where in the country you are: the ALA reports that while 92 percent of urban libraries offer the option to patrons, just 65 percent of rural libraries do.

Urban and rural, modern and traditional, and secular and religious lifestyles are well represented in this worthwhile classroom and library addition.

Perhaps in having to travel further, rural people had «least access to libraries» but it appears they had a stronger desire to get to libraries and to take out books from libraries.

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This is especially prevalent in rural Canada, where the bulk of public libraries reside.

Niles District Library is doing the Social Workers in Rural and Small Libraries project.

Voices, an essay by Susan Rivers In the summer of 2014, I was in the library near my home in rural South CarolinIn the summer of 2014, I was in the library near my home in rural South Carolinin the library near my home in rural South Carolinin rural South Carolina.

We're in the process of running a pilot program with a group that will be entirely interacting through the API (the libraries involved include large metros, as well as small rural).

Massanutten Regional's seven library buildings are located mostly in two rural Virginia counties.

The needs of big - city libraries, intended for scholars and other researchers, not just the public at large, are rather different from those of small - town and rural libraries — especially in poorer communities.

The library's new e-book collection will probably attract new academic patrons given the concentration of computer - savvy users at four universities and colleges located in the most rural area of western Virginia.

And because of the library cuts, many in the province — especially those in rural areas — will lose basic Internet access.»

And via improved WiFi availability and otherwise, we could make digital library books more accessible than now for students and others in high - poverty neighborhoods and remote rural areas — «book deserts,» as some call them.

But what about those kids and other library patrons in rural Mississippi?

For instance, what works at a small rural library might not work at a large library in a big city.

Across Philadelphia school libraries are being closed and in many rural communities the school libraries have been closed for years.

In the Progressive Era they labored to cleanse cities from corruption of political machines; they promoted public health, nursing care, and education for maternity among thousands of women living in rural backwaters and city slums; they fought to end the double standard and to promote enlightened policies of population control; and they encouraged support for schools, museums, and librarieIn the Progressive Era they labored to cleanse cities from corruption of political machines; they promoted public health, nursing care, and education for maternity among thousands of women living in rural backwaters and city slums; they fought to end the double standard and to promote enlightened policies of population control; and they encouraged support for schools, museums, and librariein rural backwaters and city slums; they fought to end the double standard and to promote enlightened policies of population control; and they encouraged support for schools, museums, and libraries.

I'm also a library user in rural Ontario.

National Bookmobile Day was started in 2010 and is sponsored by the American Library Association, the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services, and the Association for Rural & Small Libraries to honor mobile delivery outreach as a vital part of library service in the United States.

I live in a rural area and I don't miss much by not being able to download ebooks from the library here.

Those living in households making less than $ 30,000 per year, those living in rural areas, and adults ages 65 and older are less likely than other groups to have a library card.

Patrons with limited access to their library's physical branch, including adults living with disability and those who live in very rural areas, mentioned how e-books helped them read more.

Libraries are used to sharing with each other, which is especially important for smaller libraries in rural areas that can't afford to buy multiple copies or a collection ofLibraries are used to sharing with each other, which is especially important for smaller libraries in rural areas that can't afford to buy multiple copies or a collection oflibraries in rural areas that can't afford to buy multiple copies or a collection of e-books.

Thank goodness for our rural library staff who assist me in downloading e-books.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

They are also called libraries, and Kris De Decker of No - Tech Magazine points us to a lovely post by Brian Kaller, a former newspaper reporter now living in rural Ireland.

I, for one, as a person who lives in a rural area, have to drive 2 hours in good traffic to visit either the great library (Osgoode Hall) in Toronto or to York University (Osgoode Law School) law library.

Canadians living in rural communities who do not have an Internet connection will be able to access the Gazette at a public library, as most libraries today are equipped with computers that have Internet access.