Sentences with phrase «library patronage»

It's a useful set of views on these numbers, and ends with Gonzalez wondering aloud whether Bowker has correlated book buyers with library patronage.

The one - year pilot tested the use, function and adoption of e-readers in selected libraries to determine how e-readers affect library patronage, communities, staff, policies and procedures.

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Or a crippled public library service struggling with dwindling patronage and increasing irrelevance.

With everything from technology centers, MOOC learning courses, 3D printers and maker labs, and more, libraries are shifting their roles in order to keep up with a changing patronage.

The radio, television, and, now, personal computers have brought information into our homes in such a way that institutions like libraries and bookstores are quickly losing patronage.

«Users of libraries are changing their patronage patterns and are expressing their eagerness for these community institutions to serve a significant appetite for lifelong learning opportunities that are tied to people wanting to adjust to changes in the job market and to their yearning for personal enrichment.»

Indeed, the presence of a child or a grandchild in a family is the primary reason cited by the 30 % of parents who say their patronage of libraries has increased in the past five years.

The findings presented in this report show that digital reading programs may help libraries increase overall patronage and patron interest in the library, attract a wider age range of patrons, and increase the amount patrons are reading, in addition to rapidly expanding the collections of libraries to suit patron needs.

This would restore the research libraries place as public agents of learned patronage.

Created interest and patronage via innovative library promotions, such as book sales and arts events, and marketed events on behalf of library