Sentences with phrase «library around the country»

To start thinking about these issues, I talked to a sampling of YA librarians working in schools and public libraries around the country.

Most libraries around the country offer free summer reading programs that encourage kids of all ages to read, and they often host other activities like, parties, music and puppet shows.

Many libraries around the country have been trying to introduce and expand e-book lending.

Even some of the smallest libraries around the country are recognizing the shift to digital and are trying to accommodate their patrons by providing digital media.

Last May, as Nancy Everhart (at the time she was president of AASL) was finishing her Vision Tour of excellent school libraries around the country, she announced 100 things that students would miss if school librarians were...

Carnegie helped promote literacy and cultural knowledge by supporting the construction of hundreds of new libraries around the country.

NEARY: Reidy says that once they study the results of their pilot program, it could be rolled out to other libraries around the country.

There will be more on this when OverDrive answers the angry letters from libraries around the country.

If IMLS is cut, all the state libraries around the country will lose critical funding that supports everything from audio books for the blind to 24/7 homework help for school kids to vital services for veterans and their families to interlibrary loans that makes each local library's collection bigger and more efficient.

And the inconsistencies across services are creating headaches for libraries around the country until things do standardize more.

College libraries around the country have met with enthusiastic responses to their Kindle lending opportunities and some schools have reported waiting on lists for months to have a shot at a week with the Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) favorite.

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.

-LSB-...] annual Ebook Penetration & Use in U.S. Libraries Survey, and those results tell a story of e-books gaining ground in libraries around the country.

Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country selected by YALSA to participate.

For the Fire in the Library gifts, we plan on contacting libraries around the country to find out which ones have game libraries and are open to receiving new ones.

The app was developed using open source software, giving public libraries around the country the ability to use the code to develop their own e-reader apps, and make borrowing free e-books easier for their patrons.

«School libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Reading blog.

Many libraries around the country are adding eBooks and eReaders to their collection.

And libraries around the country are becoming hives of activity, centers for connection and creation as well as consumption of content.

billion for the federal E-rate program that connects schools and libraries around the country.

In collaboration with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockman et al conducted several studies to gauge the effectiveness of a free large - scale distribution of Big Read Audio Guides to 14,000 public libraries around the country.

At DBW, 3M was testing the platform in five libraries around the country, but as of BEA this week that number jumped to fifty library systems.

Lois gives talks about writing and history at universities, museums, and libraries around the country.

With next month's first annual Indie Author Day, libraries around the country will host one - day events aimed at bringing local readers and local authors together with book signings, speaking events, and even a digital event.

Previous Pew Research Center data suggest that strong majorities of adults consider themselves «lifelong learners» and libraries around the country are working to fit their programs and services into local educational ecosystems.

Libraries around the country are facing budget cuts as local governments struggle with the aftermath of the recession — and in many cases that means fewer branches or services.

Libraries around the country are developing mobile applications and online discovery systems that make it easier to explore books and authors on the go.

In a June 29th press release, Sony (NYSE: SNE) announced a program reaching out to public libraries around the country.

Benjamin lives in Chicago and has appeared at the Southern Festival of Books, the James Thurber House, the Dallas Museum of Art, and at many other literary festivals and libraries around the country.

Additionally, these views arise in a context where strong majorities of adults consider themselves «lifelong learners» and libraries around the country are working to fit their programs and services into local educational ecosystems — both the formal parts of it (such as schools) and the informal parts of it (such as «do it yourself» learning opportunities).

They are represented by the Ingram's sales teams and sold into book stores and libraries around the country and the world.

The grant is part of a second round of winners in a national competition to create 21st - century labs in museums and libraries around the country.