Sentences with phrase «library funding at»

We are proud to have grown new corporate support during 2017 to help us realize this vision for library funding at the ballot box, and to have renewed our 2016 corporate donors as well.

Even more dire: Most district schools have only a minimal budget to spend on bridging this gap — if they have any additional library funds at all.

Not exact matches

Normally, my response to this is the one nobody wants to hear: put the money in a savings account or savings bond, check out a book about investing from the library, save more money while you read the book, and start investing once you have the $ 1000 minimum to open an account at a big mutual fund house like Schwab or Vanguard.

They were able to do so thanks to an unrepeatable set of conditions: the collection of texts in nationally funded libraries and archives; the creation of university chairs and graduate seminars in Europe and the United States; the willingness, at the end of the Victorian era, to reconsider the modern condemnation of the Middle Ages as an era of darkness.

«I don't think we can build the whole building at once, but we do want to have some space to move into,» Park District Board Vice President Mary Wright said, noting the project is to be constructed in phases by using available bond funds, reserve money and any money gained from the sale or lease of property to the library.

At 3:30 p.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein and IDC member Sen. David Carlucci will join NYSUT members, parents and teachers to call for the creation of a Kindergarten Conversion Fund from approximately $ 60 million in unclaimed or forfeited lottery prizes for full - day K and the expansion of existing kindergarten programs, Park Elementary School library, 22 Edward St., Ossining.

As if Thomas Galante's bloated salary isn't enough to make your head spin, Galante displayed his royal arrogance Thursday at a budget hearing inside Borough Hall where he repeatedly requesting more funds for Queens library while defending his outrageous $ 2 million dollar severance package and other perks.

However, at the time the Library Board adopted its 2011 budget, the County was considering a proposal supported by the County Executive to provide $ 3 million in one - time funding to allow the library, in 2011, to retain most of the open hours that would have otherwise been eliminated, preserving an estimated 65 - 70 FTE positions.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Libraries and Education Technology holds meeting on funding public libraries, Celeste Auditorium, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave., MLibraries and Education Technology holds meeting on funding public libraries, Celeste Auditorium, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave., Mlibraries, Celeste Auditorium, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

At noon, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, Queens Library President Dennis Walcott, Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson, New York Public Library President Tony Marx, and Councilmen Andy King and Costa Constantinides announce permanent baselining of city funding for 6 - day library service, Broadway Library, 40 - 20 Broadway, Queens.

However, each of these municipalities expressed a commitment to identify supplemental funding to support its library at reduced open hours.

Last year, for the first time in 3 years, this body increased our annual appropriation by $ 500,000, and we used those funds to expand hours of public access, especially at libraries that had failed to meet New York State minimum standards in 2006.

Friday and the weekend At the New York State Legislature on Friday, the Assembly Standing Committee on Libraries and Education Technology will have a public meeting to discuss funding for Public Libraries.

A Forest Hills congressman took the Republican Party to task Tuesday for the millions of dollars in proposed budget cuts that would harm the working - class and senior citizens of Queens and the borough president bemoaned belt - tightening at the city level after $ 5 million of funding for the long - awaited Queens West library branch become embroiled in -LSB-...]

He and many of his colleagues want the city to increase funding for nonprofit cultural institutions by $ 40 million - it has remained flat for the last three budgets - and to baseline $ 43 million for six - day service at city libraries.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced a $ 82.1 billion budget agreement for Fiscal Year 2017 at City Hall Wednesday afternoon, putting millions of additional dollars towards summer youth jobs, libraries and seniors while securing more money for the city's reserve fund and the citywide savings program.

The budget agreement also includes an additional $ 22 million in funding for the city's district attorneys; $ 21 million a year in baselined funding to continue six day service at libraries; $ 1.8 million of baselined funding for senior citizen case management; and $ 5 million for the Emergency Food Assistance Program.

That was the bizarre lesson Mayor de Blasio — whose questionable fund - raising tactics are at the center of an ongoing criminal probe — delivered Saturday to a group of children at a Queens library.

The Brooklyn Public Library will receive $ 52 million from the sale, about $ 40 million of which will fund improvements at other branches, according to David Woloch, the library's executive vice president for external affairs.

The three - story, 53,000 - square - foot building was constructed at 335 Montgomery St. with a $ 200,000 grant from steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie — one of nearly 1,700 libraries that he funded in the United States.

It is unusual for the administration's presence to be somewhat absent at a City Council budget hearing, and though Tom Finklepearl, commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, testified, funding for libraries went unmentioned throughout his time in front of the Council members presiding over the hearing.

After the 2011 revolution in Egypt, several employees at the library accused Serageldin and three colleagues of misusing public funds.

Thirteen public libraries have received small grants through the AAAS Skin Deep Project aimed at funding public awareness events related to skin health.

AHRC funded project explores the link between geography and attendance rates at libraries and leisure centres

Later, thanks to the One Per Cent for Development Fund (underwritten and run by employees of the United Nations), we were able to put up a building and later equip it with solar panels so the library can be open at night, a dramatic symbol of the power of reading.

During the last school year, Oakwood sent care packages to troops, fed 50 families at Thanksgiving, adopted eight families during the holiday season, raised money for cancer research, and even used a large portion of funds it had raised for the school to help the children's section of the local library.

School library collections are frozen in the 1970s because that's when a major change in funding occurred: Federal money previously aimed specifically at library materials was reallocated to block grants that are administered on the local level.

While the revisions that were adopted to the $ 2.25 billion program at the Federal Communications Commission's Sept. 23 meeting generally have been welcomed, experts say there is still work to do before the program — set up in 1997 to fund discounts for schools and libraries...

Compared to teachers at schools with similarly renovated libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers at Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school librarian and were four times more likely to have their students use the library for research.

Okay, say teachers, let's build one Dorchester Reporter, January 7, 2016 In the wake of a cut in funding a decade ago, the library at the John W. McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point was closed, leaving students without a quiet, out - of - the mainstream place to study and read... read more.

Hold a discussion on school funding at your local library.

My staff at Eastern (SO PROUD), through payroll deductions, fund the program which provides age appropriate FREE books to children, ages 0 - 5, so that children can start school with a personal library of up to 60 books.

EveryLibrary helps secure funding for libraries at the ballot box.

Staff from The Mix at San Francisco Public Library share their experience in developing, funding and building their new teen library space, as well as how they engaged their youth and made it a community project.

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.

The study looked at 8 schools and more than 300 students, and found that the best school libraries are allocated adequate funding and regard their teacher - librarians as key teaching staff members.

This document reports on the benefits received by students at four high schools that received supplemental funding from the Public Education Network to update their library media spaces.

How to get people to spend more at the personal level rather than simply rely on library books, especially since even well - funded libraries can't afford to offer all suitable books?

His 2013 government funded report said that libraries should not limit the supply of e-books in the same way that physical book loans are controlled, including the lending of each digital copy to one reader at a time, securely removing eBooks after lending and having digital books «deteriorate after a number of loans».

But Moyes, 48, said: «Like so many, I was shocked that a scheme helping many people to read was going to close, especially at a time when libraries are struggling for funding.

The webinar will be led by «Advocacy Guru» Stephanie Vance and will look at cuts to library funding and changes to policies impacting libraries.

The only federal funds for libraries are at risk in Trump's proposed budget.

Sometimes the school librarians (or their substitutes) aren't to blame: «At the building level, due to implementation of [district policies] and a decrease in funding, library personnel (including librarians and clerks) are being pulled from their regular assignments, and that decreases the amount of time for them to spend on library duties,» including professional development, said one respondent.

April 9, 2018 Lisa Bakanas» testimony at the NJ Assembly Budget Hearings on Proposed Budget and the need for funding for school libraries.

We're working really hard at EveryLibrary to help support these school libraries and ensure that our children are not denied the education that they deserve with a well - funded library.

If the library has unused reading funds at the end of the year, they are carried over into the following year.

Bruce Hopkins, a volunteer at the city library for two decades, said facilities need funds to fix broken or unusable items, replenish collections and make sure items are available when they're needed.

Currently, this practice is not particularly widespread at public libraries; some 15 % of public libraries circulate preloaded e-reading devices (up from 5 % the previous year), and 26 % expect to in the future, according to the 2011 survey from Library Journal and School Library Journal.58 Meanwhile, according to the ALA's 2011 - 2012 Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study, 39 % of libraries offer e-readers to patrons for check - out.59

Overall, however, the patrons in our focus groups were not frustrated at the libraries themselves for issues related to licensing or lack of funds.

CHICAGO — Seeing the need for urgent action to combat cuts in school library funding, staffing and programming, American Library Association (ALA) President Jim Neal will host a summit in Chicago on May 23, at ALA Headquarters, 50 E. Huron, to work with our nation's library leaders to craft a strategy to advocate for our nation's school libraries.