Sentences with phrase «libraries working together»

The long - running Library Impact Data Project, [5] funded by JISC and managed by the University of Huddersfield, is an impressive example of many libraries working together (Huddersfield collaborated with seven other university libraries).

Currently, 193 school libraries working together form RILINK, sharing their books, audiovisual materials and expertise to provide better service to their 81,700 students and teachers.

The ReadersFirst Working Group is an active community of libraries working together to improve ebooks access.

Due to the importance of the topic at hand, namely, reforming the way publishers and libraries work together on ebook... [Read more...]

Due to the importance of the topic at hand, namely, reforming the way publishers and libraries work together on ebook lending, Coates has made his notes available to the media in order to understand the sweeping calls he is making for both sides.

The foundation and the library work together, in a strong partnership, to determine where private funds can have the greatest impact and at the same time, not supplant the public's important role in supporting a strong library system.

Publishers and libraries work together to ensure the worldwide success of legal deposit...

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As the young mothers gathered for the first session of their sharing group, meeting in the library of the church, the leader set the mood for their work together.

I have no idea why but when working at a small town library, they would seriously have us take a tea break together for 30 minutes and then the library could resume again.

The City Council has directed both bodies to work together toward a plan for a joint recreation campus on a 13 - acre parcel of Park District property along 95th Street, but library officials fear a combined venture will further hinder the plans they have for a big new library near Neuqua Valley High School.

Working Together with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries to Raise Awareness and Donations for the Library System

Working together, the town board has accomplished such projects as: securing a source of road maintenance material that will last for many years into the future, established a highly respected town library, and returned swimming opportunities to the town beach area.

Our group where I work is trying to create a resource library for yoga classes, and any input you have is helpful as we work together as a global community to create the best available to help this population.

How do you motivate your team to work together to create a library of useful information?

Share with students some ABC books from the school or town library and tell them that they will be working together to create a Back - to - School ABC Book.

Have each group work together to find information about local African American history using a variety of sources, including your local library and the Internet.

Examples of such workflows include asset libraries that enable mass replacement and collaboration features that allow multiple authors to work together on content.

These include buying school materials (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self - formed teams in multiplayer online role - playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even transgressing and testing social norms.

Good school buildings today have modern architecture, with open areas where students can gather together, work in smaller studying places around the building such as the library.

Preventing summer slide is most effective when community organizations — including schools, public libraries, community centers, parent groups, social service agencies, and others — work together to encourage kids to read, make reading fun, and to reach families about the importance of reading over the summer.

And best of all, as a space traditionally and naturally designed to facilitate people working together, a school's library provides the natural dynamics for developing a Learning Commons.

«We made staff development a major component of the grant competition to ensure that our teachers and school library media specialists work together to use educational technology effectively as an instructional tool.»

Successfully designing and implementing community schools requires that schools, non-profits, health, police, housing, libraries, churches, unions and parents sit at the table together to plan, implement and assess the work.

Zombies had taken over the school library, and she and her fellow students had to work together to answer various questions about books — such as identifying where the index is located.

The library has an extensive collection, various technologies and different «zones» that allow students to work together, do research or socialize.

Instead, libraries need to return to our mission of bringing together our community, focusing on its local history and unique items, and fostering the creation of new and collaborative works.

By purchasing together, the system was able to buy more ebooks than each would have been able to afford individually, and the project demonstrated to administrators that the libraries are working together to find creative solutions.

«This partnership represents two highly innovative companies working together to provide solutions that benefit our library customers,» said Arnie Roese, National Sales and Marketing Manager for 3M Library Systems, in the release.

After the initial announcement, Anthony Marx, NYPL president, called the partnership «a powerful first step toward libraries and publishers working together to build a model that meets the needs of our ever - changing society.

As such, the Library is determined to work together with publishers and authors to craft a fair way to ensure eBooks are available to libraries and their users.»

«It's exciting for librarians because the closer these tools can work together, the better the performance will be for the library.

Peter Brantley will be leading a stellar panel exploring how libraries and publishers can work together to make digital reading and lending a win for all parties involved (including authors), and we'll be taking a look at the importance of copyright with the brilliant William Patry.

But until all parties involved work together for the much - needed library patrons, the revolution we were promised just might stall.

Or, if that's not working (sometimes devices, email clients and browsers don't play well together), you can always log in to your account on emilybooks.com and download your purchases from your library.

Libraries and publishers must dismantle the walls between them and work together to line the real and virtual shelves with a rich collection of both print and ebooks.»

The addition of popular graphic novels from Dark Horse Comics is the latest in a spate of content additions for Madefire, including recently launched Marvel Comics ®, DC Comics ®, Image Comics ® and brings together a vast library of digital works that include over 30,000 comics, graphic novels and Motion Books, produced by the best creators and publishers in the industry, including IDW ®, TNT ®, 20th Century FOX ®, Archie ®, BOOM!

Mom and John, both of whom had met with Nancy many times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, were working together to form a U.S. foundation to help Nancy raise money for a national cultural center and library - something Afghanistan didn't have - to be built at Kabul University, and for mobile libraries for villages all over the country, bringing books in Dari and Pashto to people who'd rarely or never seen a book in their own language if they'd seen a book at all.

The addition of Image Comics» iconic catalog is the latest in a spate of content additions for Madefire, including recently launched Marvel Comics ®, DC Comics ®, and brings together a vast library of digital works that include over 30,000 comics, graphic novels and Motion Books, produced by the best creators and publishers in the industry, including IDW ®, TNT ®, 20th Century FOX ®, Archie ®, BOOM!

SELF - e is an innovative collaboration between Library Journal and BiblioBoard ® that enables authors and libraries to work together, to exposing notable self - published ebooks to voracious readers who are looking for something new.

In this Knowledge Quest webinar, Judi Moreillon and Susan Ballard discuss the exciting ways in which school librarians and teachers work together, and what effect teaching collaboration has on school library programs and students.

This issue explores the exciting ways in which school librarians and teachers work together, and what effect teaching collaboration has on school library programs and students.

This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources

Hellman recommends that, «Now is the time for publishers and libraries to sit down together and develop new models for working together in the ebook economy.

Two companies have listened to their customers and worked together to provide an ebook solution that benefits librarians, their patrons, and the local library.»

While today's announcement is only a first step, we look forward to the release of more details about the pilot and continuing work together to bring even more Macmillan e-titles to libraries in the future.

I have established a working relationship (via the GCU School of Education's «Lakewood Together» program) with the library media...

We appreciate your participation and look forward to working together to plan the future of libraries in New Jersey.

Provide opportunities for school library media specialists to communicate, network and work together.

That is why publishers, bookshops and libraries need to work together to ensure neither are being disadvantaged by e-book developments.

Publishers, libraries and other entities have worked together for centuries to sustain a healthy reading ecosystem — celebrating our society's access to the complete marketplace of ideas.