Sentences with phrase «of library learning»

Contribute to professional knowledge about the impact of the library learning commons in Canada.

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I had to go to the library to find a book on beginner's mind, the Internet still being a thing of the future, and I learned that what he expected from me was an attitude of openness, a lack of preconceived ideas about how things had to be, and a wealth of questions that started with, «what if» and «why not.»
You can purchase learning software online or check books out of the library that will walk you through the first steps to playing the xylophone.
InfoPosse members are Genevieve Foskett, corporate librarian at Highsmith Inc.; Lisa Guedea Carreà ± o, library director at Goshen College; Christine Klein, director of knowledge and information management at LifeCare Inc.; Jean Mayhew, director of information and learning at United Technologies Research Center; and Lisa Zwickey, senior research specialist at J.J. Keller & Associates.
Within five years, I'd built a booming business and published my own book, all because I used the resources of the public library to learn something new.
Browse our library of additional resources to learn more about who we are and how we help firms just like yours.
The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.
Mughal rulers such as Babar and Jahangir were themselves literary men of high distinction, and their courtiers included men of great learning and collectors of large libraries.
25 years ago, I had to search through libraries and get permission to see special collections to learn only some of this.
I am glad to see the collaboration between science and faith, but it seems there is not very much new under the sun, just new people to do «research and learn it» — Monasteries both eastern and western have been at the core of learning, of science, of faith, of culture, and the development of libraries, and other «storage places of knowledge and wisdom.
In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.
Are you ready to go to the library and check out the Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, New Testament, Quran, Sunnah, Nahjul Balagha, Avesta, Vedas, Upanisahds, Bhagavad Gita, Puranas, Tantras, Sutras, Vachanas, Adi Granth, Purvas, Samayasara, Niyamasara, Pravacanasara, and Pancastikaya; Anupreksa; Samadhishataka of Pujyapada; Tattvarthasutra of Umasvati, Tattvarthasutra, Pali Tripitaka, Jataka,, Visuddimagga, Tripitaka, Lotus Sutra, Garland Sutra, Analects; the Great Learning; the Doctrine of the Mean; the Mencius, Tao Te Ching, Chuang - tzu, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, K - oki, Ofudesaki, Mikagura - uta, Michi - no - Shiori, Johrei, Goseigen, Netarean Shower of Holy Doctrines, Chun Boo Kyung, Kitab - i - Iqan, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Book of Mormon, Dianetics, and Revelation X?
If you're stuck in a routine and you need to break out of it, look at the options at your local library or community college — many offer one - night classes where you can learn a new skill, such as a cooking class or an art class.
Learn more about fruit ingredients or view how we process 24 million pounds of strawberries primarily used by the ice cream / frozen novelty industry in our resource library.
The ceremony will include a ribbon cutting for the library, a book reading by Batali of Dr. Seuss» Green Eggs and Ham, as well as remarks from the Mario Batali Foundation; Books for Kids; Variety Early Learning Center and a special thank you from the children.
«What Williams and the other schools understand is that you learn just as much on the line of scrimmage as you do in the library stacks,» Steinbrenner says.
Not only is a dictionary essential but this one is a great introduction to all libraries (home or otherwise) but one that has pictures and simplified explanations can be a boon to the learning habits of your family.
You also can learn about babies by getting books out of the library.
Comic books, now generally known as graphic novels, have increasingly been finding their way into classrooms and school libraries as teachers search for tools to not only help their students learn how to read, but to tap into the vivid imagination that is the hallmark of childhood and turn their students onto a lifelong love of reading.
Experiential learning through museum trips, music, dance, and art lessons, sports programs, libraries, and colleges» community outreach education will enrich your child's store of knowledge and stimulate a lifelong learning habit.
While it's a little more expensive than other learning toys, and you will probably want to expand its library beyond the included sampler books, it is certainly going to engage your child even when they begin to grow out of the toddler stage.
Some of the ideas are free... learn 20 Spanish words, learn a bible verse, join the local library club and wash the dogs.
I am proud of the ways you have made service a significant part of your life: as a boy scout, an alter server at our parish, with your religious education class (making lunches for those who are less fortunate in a nearby suburb), as a member of National Junior Honor Society at Keller, and volunteering with the Summer Learning Program at our neighborhood library.
In 2007, Shari expanded her services out to reach millions of new parents by taking her classes and education online Her company, My Baby Experts, produced LIVE WebTV Show, her DVD and online streaming full - length classes, and a full video library with over 600 educational videos where new parents can learn directly from Shari right from their own home!
In addition to meetings where you can learn a ton, and try on piles and piles of carriers with help from experts, Babywearing International chapters offer lending libraries and have a local Babywearing Educator.
The SMA has a lot of helpful resources for treating professionals, including handouts and information that you can find in our online library (http://www.selectivemutism.org/online-library/), reading lists for SM and child anxiety in our bookstore (http://www.selectivemutism.org/learn/shop/), as well other opportunities to learn from professionals who treat SM through our Expert Chat sessions (http://www.selectivemutism.org/learn/expert-chat/).
He identified the commissioning of the largest library project ever in Ghana as an avenue will give opportunity to both young and old to have access to materials that will enhance their learning process in the Upper West region.
The $ 52 million deal to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights library into a luxury condo tower, which City Hall awarded to a de Blasio pal who offered less money for the city - owned land than two other bidders, has attracted the attention of federal and city prosecutors, The Post has learned.
The facility, apart from the spacious 24 classrooms, also boasts of four laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Integrated Science, two libraries, eight offices for departmental heads, ICT laboratories and internet learning area.
«We've developed a collection and are offering services that recognize the needs of a diverse and dynamic community and live up to the ideals expressed by this outstanding renovation and expansion,» said Queens Library president and CEO Dennis Walcott, adding that he hopes the new library «will inspire our customers to learn, discover and pursue their dreams.»
«Securing these funds was a priority for me because our libraries do so much to enhance our quality of life and learning for residents of all ages,» said Senator Jacobs.
The new libraries have already been opened for use in the respective schools with facilities such as new furniture, books, computer systems and internet facilities to improve the learning experience of the students, as well as solar powered inverters for consistent power.
A school is capable of facilitating this right when adequate infrastructure are available — libraries, classrooms, dining halls, laboratories and workshops, furniture and other teaching and learning materials.
«We expect it to be one of the most heavily trafficked libraries in our system and one of the busiest in the country, with an estimated 1.1 million children coming here to learn, dream, explore and get what they need to navigate through life.»
Her major surprise throughout the program was how teaching and learning appeared to be a little behind modern ways of doing so; writing dictated notes, limited internet library facility and getting supervisors for long papers.
Take Your Child to the Library Day was developed to spotlight libraries as vital community resources that enrich, enlighten and entertain — and to encourage adults and families to introduce children of all ages to their warm and friendly local public libraries, where everyone is always welcome to discover, learn and grow.
He outlined some of the government's policies in promoting French, which include introduction of French in a number of professional and technical - oriented universities, provision of resources in public libraries to enable learning of French with a degree of autonomy, celebration by the University of Ghana of Francophone Day with seminars and conferences to create awareness of the language, and initial talks with French TV stations to extend their broadcasting services to Ghana.
«She believed in libraries as places where communities are empowered and inspired, where children can nurture a love of learning and discovery and where adults can gain the skills they need to adapt to a changing workforce,» Walcott added.
Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.
The plans to renovate and expand the library are designed to provide a top - notch facility of learning and meet the growing needs of Queens residents, especially our children and seniors.
We anticipate these One Buffalo branded new cards will attract patrons of all ages who want to take advantage of the variety of free services and resources available in our libraries that promote reading and learning as a way to succeed.»
The local library had an Internet connection, and he started surfing the Web to learn more about the biology of aging.
I was so excited I ran over to the science and engineering library and obtained a copy of Baker's dissertation, so that I could read his vita and learn more about him.
The genetic record is «like a lost library... and we're just starting to learn the language of all those books that we have uncovered,» says Johannes Krause, director of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
In a special section, News, Perspective, and Review articles explore what one can learn from video games, the value of digital libraries, how large - scale testing might be improved by technology, where cognitive science meets education, and more.
I'd never heard of that, so I went down to the library and learned that the Atlantic sailed from Connecticut just before Thanksgiving in 1846 with some 80 people aboard.
The researchers calculated the energies of common crystal structures for a small library of binary alloys — mixes of two different metals — and then designed a machine - learning algorithm that could extract patterns from the library and guess the most likely ground state for a new alloy.
In chapter 24 of book VII, on the topic of memory, Pliny mentions king Cyrus of Persia, who knew the names of all his soldiers; Scipio, who knew the names of all in Rome; Cineas, king Pyrrhus's ambassador, who learned the names of all the Roman senators just one day after arriving in Rome; Mithridates Eupator, who administered justice in the 22 languages spoken in his empire; Simonides, inventor of mnemonics; or Charmadas the Greek, who could recite by heart any book from a library as though he were reading it.6
These centers sponsor workshops, seminars, and brown - bag lunch events, and provide a library of resources to help both beginning and advanced faculty members learn and improve their teaching techniques.
«We've worked with pretty much every cetacean species there is, so we can compare the genetics to this enormous library of material and learn a lot that way,» says Phillip Morin, a research molecular biologist in the Marine Mammal Genetics Group.
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