Sentences with phrase «more library buildings»

Also in 1998, planning consultants confirmed that the B&ECPL maintained more library buildings per capita than any other community in North America, arguably more than it needed to serve a population of fewer than one million people and certainly more than it could reasonably afford over the long term.

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With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

To create an even more welcoming environment, volunteers also built 3 Mendocino benches, 3 benches with attached shade structures, a directional sign post, 4 adult and 2 kid picnic tables, a trash and recycling container, a set of soccer goals, and a «little library» to encourage reading and book sharing.

I should have noted that, more important than the professorship in stabilizing Acton's worrisome financial circumstance, was the generous benefactor who purchased his sixty «thousand «volume library, which, after Acton's death, was given to the University Library at Cambridge, where it is today housed in a special chamber in the center of the building.

We are building a library of these signatures to enable food businesses to more accurately identify products and predict their quality attributes during processing.

The Park District asked for the loan to speed up their construction time so that a park facility could be built on the same timeline as the library, which officials have been planning for more than a year.

A portion of these donations goes back to our parent organization, Babywearing International, and the rest stays in our chapter to help build the lending library, reach more parents and caregivers in our community and pay for our administrative costs.

Buying the library building may be a more economical way to provide preschool space than adding it onto the recreation center, McKenna said.

Buying the current New Lenox Public Library building once the new library is built would provide more space for preschool classes, McKenna said.

The bottom line is that the group needs more space and the vacant library building would be an ideal place to grow.

My legislative aide, Susan Gregg, and I will also be scheduling more office hours at libraries, community centers and municipal buildings throughout the district.

The new $ 32 million library will be about 18,000 square feet, more than double the size of the current building, constructed in 1975.

The funds will also go toward security enhancements, as well as increasing the effectiveness of library services and more efficiently utilizing the building for collaborative partnerships.

To date REF has proudly donated more than 34,000 new books to help build the home libraries of city students, and to city school libraries.

If enacted, libraries will be forced to be closed more days than they're open; prisoners will pay more to make phone calls, get fewer slices of bread, and be forced to make do without pepper, ice cream and pudding; building fees will increase; and parking rates will rise.

• The approval and signing of a contract with Vincent Heating and Fuel for the installation of a pellet boiler for heating the town library, meal site, health center and ambulance building was tabled and to be held for the March town board meeting giving time to acquire some more information to address issues that arose during this months review.

The team began by building libraries of more than 1.6 million candidate molecules.

At Rinat, Van Blarcom focuses on designing, building, and using sequence libraries to discover more effective antibodies.

After a $ 55 million renovation, the 35 - year - old building on the U-M medical campus has emerged from a metamorphosis that has made it into a new kind of library, and much more.

I have built a large library of health books over the years and continue to purchase more.

It is in the middle of nowhere, there are more banned books in town than actual books to check out at the library, the high school history teacher teaches The War of Northern Aggression, and there are more churches than any other buildings.

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character - based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years.

About Marvel Entertainment Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly - owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character - based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years

You can poll the class using a tool like Kahoot to gauge student interest as you build a classroom library, or use virtual exit slips to get a feel for topics students would like to learn more about.

«Initially, about five years ago... there was the BER [Building the Education Revolution] work that kicked it off with a new library... then the ACT [education department] put more than $ 5 million towards a major upgrade and expansion.»

These software come with built in modules to manage timetables, attendance, examinations, grade sheets, campus news, hostel, library, transportation, school calendar, events and a lot more.

(«We are building a new library» or «We want to provide more scholarships to needy children»).

To date REF has proudly donated more than 34,000 new books to help build the home libraries of city students, and to city school libraries.

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.

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

With two more adults in the building, the library was able to offer more assistance to students and more events as well as tackle some much needed projects.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

The Foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and through the effective use of additional learning time during the school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

The tool comes with an in - built library of more than 47,500 characters and photographs in various poses, which goes a long way in developing scenario - based online courses, easily and quickly.

Mobile Modular offers modular building solutions in a variety of exterior and interior finishes and sizes, designed to suit specific requirements like office spaces, libraries, cafeterias, health care facilities, plan rooms, and much more.

With more consumers building their own private libraries of digital books, music, movies, and audiobooks on their devices, the need to borrow someone else's content may have diminished.

3M and Polaris Library Systems announced a partnership today that will build on their existing relationship in order to bring more checkout features to library patrons.

The main reasons why the comics are going to experience a price increase this April is because physical copies of these books will finally come with a «free» digital copy of the same issue, allowing readers to maintain a physical collection alongside building a digital library of books, an avenue of comics reading that's become steadily more popular than physical books in recent years.

The building that will be constructed will have six different floors, two for the library and four for social housing called Cause We Care... [Read more...]

In addition, Overdrive have built new features that gives more control to libraries, allowing librarians to customize their website menu, featured collections, and more.

«Libraries around the world have shown a strong interest in building more direct relationships with their patrons.

More about our work building voter support for libraries can be found at www.everylibrary.org and action.everylibrary.org.

An app built for book lovers — with everything you need all in one place, seamlessly move between the pages of your book, your library, your personal bookstore, and more

«The Biggest Classroom in the Building: Libraries Staffed with Certified Librarians in Many Schools Hold Unexploited Potential to Raise Achievement and Meet the More Rigorous Demands of the Common Core.»

Libraries can build stronger communities by partnering with law enforcement agencies to encourage engagement and more effective approaches to public safety, while providing library services to those who need them most.

The company has also set itself a lofty target to build a library comprising of more than a million ebooks available on its platform by early 2014.

«Ebook readership was going up, more ebooks were being produced, so we thought why not address that segment at probably one - third of the cost... as opposed to building a big branch library,» Wolff said last week.

The company launched some time ago and has rolled out new features — like Booktrack Studio, which lets readers create these accompanying soundtracks from a library of some 20,000 different tracks — that have enticed more than 300,000 users to join, and led to the creation of almost four thousand reader - built ebook soundtracks since its recent launch.