Sentences with phrase «many libraries work»

For several months he sat — Enoch Powell like — at the same desk in the Commons library working on his computer to develop his book.

This involves library work, buying supplies, organizing travel, gathering feedback from colleagues about the types of sampling to do, and — of course — planning the experiments themselves.

Learn more about how the video library works here.

Between sitting in the library working on homework and running between classes, my body temperature is constantly changing.

In this case, the students started in the library working with our librarian to research ancient armor designs.

Every week we explored vocabulary and practiced conversation relevant to library work.

The bill specifies how much time in each school day the school library media specialist is required to devote to school library work in public secondary schools, which is dependent upon the enrollment in the school.

(1) in a secondary school having an enrollment of less than 100 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one period in each school day to school library work; (2) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 100 and 299 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least two periods in each school day to school library work; (3) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 300 and 499 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one - half of each school day to school library work; (4) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 500 and 699 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least five periods in each school day to school library work; and (5) in a secondary school having an enrollment of 700 or more students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote the full school day to school library work.

As used in this section, «school library work» means the delivery of instruction in information literacy skills; the development and coordination of school library media programs and resources; and the delivery of instruction in the evaluation, selection, organization, distribution, creation, and utilization of school library media.

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

But as libraries work to reimagine their roles in communities and demonstrate their worth, perhaps it is the concept of library patrons that needs some clarification as well.

Penguin - Random House, S&S, Hachette, and HarperCollins have all committed themselves to making libraries work for them, although each company has their terms and conditions.

The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content & Libraries Working Group, and can be used by librarians to weigh ebook contract variables most important to their library.

ROB MAIER is director of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and a member of ALA's Digital Content and Libraries Working Group.

There are no registration or borrowing fees and the library works on a bring one, take one basis.

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.

I don't know that all public libraries work on that system, but the ones in which the patron specifies the amount of time they are going to keep the book do work that way.

We have all heard about how American Libraries work, from attending events like ALA, but Canadian libraries work in a very different way.

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.

This undated brochure highlights findings from Doug Achterman's dissertation, Haves, Halves, and Have - Nots: School Libraries and Student Achievement in California, and Scholastic's School Libraries Work!

Here, let me summarize a report (from January 25, 2013) from the Digital Content & Libraries Working Group (DCWG) that discusses the 15 items in The Ebook Business Model Scorebook used to create library licensing agreements or contracts.

After years of dividing her education, and personal and professional lives, between natural history and library work, Nancy Bent has finally settled in as a reference librarian in La Grange, IL.

A brief stint of teaching brought her to library work and the serials department of Boatwright Library at the University of Richmond (VA).

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

Many, many libraries work with community and homeless shelters to make sure that homeless patrons can get a library card.

libraries work like bookstores in so far as when a library buys an ebook it has to be requested by customers for the investment to be viable.

As a last resort, I took the Kobo e-reader to a local library - two employees at the library worked with me for over three hours, with no results - they finally suggested I return the e-reader and go back to using my Sony.

CLIFFORD A. LYNCH is executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information in Washington, D.C., and a member of ALA's Digital Content and Libraries Working Group.

Joining me in New York on behalf of ALA were Keith Michael Fiels (ALA executive director), Robert Wolven (cochair of ALA's Digital Content and Libraries Working Group and associate university librarian at Columbia University), and Alan Inouye (director of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy and program manager of ALA's Digital Content and Libraries Initiative).

Create resource sharing groups from any library you work with — no matter their library system.

Also, the tone of the event came around to a greater appreciation of libraries working directly with authors to acquire digital content for lending, making the public libraries quite possibly the next sector — after the self - publishing industry — that begins to realize that working within the confines of the publishing industry may be a thing of the past.

Today I have asked the ALA's Digital Content & Libraries Working Group to develop more aggressive strategies and approaches for the nation's library community to meet these challenges.

Both foreign and domestic students do not make sacrifices to attend college just so they can spend countless hours at the library working on a seemingly endless stream of papers and other such assignments.

I'm not sure how the borrowed / lending library works, I just joined the Select in an attempt to learn my way around the site.

One library I worked at bought 1,000 copies of the last Harry Potter book.

Censorship is a touchy subject for Christians in library work.

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These issues are a part of the focus of ALA's new presidentially appointed Digital Content and Libraries Working Group.

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.

(1) in a secondary school having an enrollment of less than 100 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one period in each school day to school library work; (2) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 100 and 299 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least two periods in each school day to school library work; (3) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 300 and 499 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one - half of each school day to school library work; (4) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 500 and 699 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least five periods in each school day to school library work; and (5) in a secondary school having an enrollment of 700 or more students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote the full school day to school library work.

As used in this section, «school library work» means the delivery of instruction in information literacy skills; the development and coordination of school library media programs and resources; and the delivery of instruction in the evaluation, selection, organization, distribution, creation, and utilization of school library media.

The Penguin and Random House Library Marketing teams are an important partner for book groups and libraries working to spark lively discussions in their community, and they work closely with the Speakers Bureau to arrange unforgettable lecture events.

In fall 2011, ALA established a Digital Content and Libraries Working Group and an associated initiative.

The 2016 Edition of School Libraries Work!

Worse yet, the Kobo application displayed an inclination to crash just about every single time I tried to access it, rendering the Next5 a total bust in its capacity to perform as an adequate standalone eBook reader — although the separate Borders library worked just fine.

I think we were all surprised by comments from some people in the publishing world about how they thought libraries worked.

Penguin Random House today announced a new unified, companywide terms of sale (TOS) policy for ebook licenses sold to public, school, and other libraries working with approved ebook vendors in the United States and Canada.

But university libraries work under a different licensing agreement that allows multiple concurrent readers of a title, unlike the public library's restriction to one user at a time.

(The Amazon Kindle lending library worked differently: instead of you downloading a file, it instead just shows up in your Kindle Library for the duration of the lend, the book coming from Amazon instead of your library.)

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