Sentences with phrase «library loaned me your book»

Our friendly librarian at the Duncan library loaned me your book about self - publishing for one week but, because I am mostly blind, I haven't been able to read much if it.

Not exact matches

- We also have a terrific library loan program, and I have read every semi-natural birthing book I can get my hands on.

While the books in this library are not available for loan, the public is welcome to use the library by appointment at times that are convenient to the theater (for instance, our lobby is small, so the hour before a performance is not the most convenient time to have visitors).

(6) supply, including on loan by libraries, of books (including brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, children's picture, drawing or colouring books, music printed or in manuscript form, maps and hydrographic or similar charts), newspapers and periodicals, other than material wholly or predominantly devoted to advertising;

I would recommend this book as a library loan, rather than a purchase.

For a number of years schools have been using biometric technology for a range of activities such as registering pupils» attendance, managing library book loans and cashless catering.

A federal judge has questioned the constitutionality of two New York State programs that loan computer software and library books to nonpublic schools, including religious institutions.

Whereas others, a much greater percentage, have introduced curriculum loaded content iPods into their school libraries for students to loan as they would books.

The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full - text articles, full - textbooks, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet; and provide an easy - to - use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other library materials for free from participating Michigan libraries.

KDP Select allows your book to be part of the Kindle Library - if someone loans your book from the library you will share in the monthly «income» from the library - on average this is around $ 1.70 per loan - you however must give Amazon 90 days rights to your book - during this period you can not sell it anywhere else.

The company remains the largest force in the library world when it comes to handling the loaning out of digital books and audiobooks.

As eBooks become pricier libraries offer great digital loaning as well as curation management on their online catalogs for physical books.

Libraries can do whatever they want with the title, including loaning it out without restriction or selling it in a book drive.

In order to keep the library updated district workers are dispatched during the summer months to weed out the books not loaned out at all during a school year, are in reprehensible shape or simply not relevant.

Libraries can only loan a book out for a year, before they are forced to buy the digital book once more.

If public libraries are able to loan as many e-books as they want without fair and balanced controls, many commercial aspects of the book trade would be harmed.»

Overdrive is one of the largest technology companies that lays down the infrastructure for libraries to loan out digital books.

For example, Simon & Schuster doesn't license for e-book lending at all, and HarperCollins just introduced a policy to limit the number of loans per licensed e-book to 26, in an apparent move to mimic the lifespan of a physical book in library circulation.

The News Release More than 11,000 libraries in the U.S are participating in this electronic - book - loaning program.

If UK & Ireland authors haven't signed up for PLR and had books in libraries for loan in the last year, the deadline for applications in 30th June, and you must have registered books on by then!

Just specifically relating to library lending — under PLR (Public Lending Right) in the UK & Ireland (run by the British Library) authors (and collaborators e.g. narrators for audio etc.) are paid for * every * loan of their books (including electronic and audio).

Last week we discussed the new «cost - per - circulation» (CPC) model for public libraries — in which they can make e-books available to patrons and pay the publisher per «loan» instead of paying fixed fees to «acquire» titles as if they were print books (the «pretend it's print» or PIP model).

After the 14 - day loan period is over, or after the offer expires in seven days, the book will become available in your library again automatically.

With some library systems, the Adobe Digital Editions library will display a banner on the cover of loaned books that indicates how many days you have left in the loan.

Only a small number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

In 2006, during its first experimental year, the library had 400 users and 971 books (60 % fiction and 40 % non-fiction), with 1,500 loans.

In the article I was actually referring to the practice of public libraries not being able to loan the book to the next patron until the time that the previous user specified had expired.

Before this standardized electronic format, many libraries only offered PDF books and did not have a digital infrastructure setup to loan them out online.

This goes against the entire mandate that libraries are funded by the public and in return loan books to inform, entertain and to educate.

For similar reasons, the fourth recommendation of this review is that digital copies of books should «deteriorate,» ensuring libraries repurchase after a certain number of loans.

This has set a new record as six different libraries have each loaned out over a million books.

Every title a library purchases can be loaned as many times as they want, but the books expire after one year.

LIBRARIAN PICKS EACH MONTH, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada's Loan Stars readersadvisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries C...

From time to time it may be necessary for the library to limit loan periods or further limit the number of books or materials for checkout because they are in high demand.

It seems the new library will be you — the new Nook reader allows you to «loan» your book to a friend for two weeks!

-- then one gets a link and has to open the Overdrive Media Console which is how the majority of libraries that manage e - book / audiobook loans.

One thing forgot to mention is with Kindle if you want to get into their «Kindle select» (their lending library where you get royalties when people loan your book out) you do sign an exclusive deal with them but it's only for 90 days with a clear cutoff date when you can re-sign if you want.

Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the e-book market longer than anyone other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-books for the kindle from other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow books and read without buying.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).

The ALA mainly tried to get the point across that library books are an essential part of the digital book ecosystem and to stress the importance of not capping the amount of times a book can be loaned out.

A loan token update failed message is constantly appearing and this is preventing anyone from checking books out from the library and reading them on their Nook e-reader.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

Earlier this year more than 60 science and math faculty members signed a letter to university librarian M. Elizabeth Cowell complaining they hadn't been adequately consulted on which books could be discarded and which ones had to be saved She said all of the books that were moved or destroyed — about 60 % of the library's collection — were used infrequently and could be accessed online or through UC interlibrary loans.

While I'd guess the publisher's markup for library use of 25 loans of an ebook far exceeds the single - copy price of the same book, I'd also be curious about the capital and administrative costs of housing and handling / shipping especially in a large multi-branch system, that don't exist for electronic loans.

All of these things are happening today: Some major publishers severely constrain which titles and libraries have access to their e-titles; some are charging very high prices or renting books to libraries for a limited number of loans or a limited time period, or both.

Loan Stars leverages the library community's knowledge and love of books to create a respected, go - to source for discovering the best new titles available in Canada.

Interlibrary Loan is a service that allows valid Brooklyn Public Library cardholders to request to borrow books not owned by BPL from other libraries in the United States.

Public libraries that offer books via OverDrive, Inc. also loan titles for the Kindle and Kindle reading apps in the USA.

It will be harder than ever for libraries to grow their collection, whether the licenses are time - limited or come with limits on the number of times a library can loan a book.

This is of course not the case with ebooks and other companies like Harpercollins implemented a cap on the number of times a book can be loaned out before the library has to order additional copies.

The report presents 145 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of eBook issues, including: spending on eBooks in 2010 and anticipated spending for 2011; use levels of various kinds of eBooks; market penetration by various specific eBook publishers; extent of use of aggregators vs offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Edition →