Sentences with phrase «of rural libraries»

First off, availability depends on where in the country you are: the ALA reports that while 92 percent of urban libraries offer the option to patrons, just 65 percent of rural libraries do.

Fewer than two - thirds of rural libraries report having access to information technology (IT) staff, far behind their counterparts.

Not exact matches

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

The Erie County Department of Social Services is partnering with ACCESS of WNY, Literacy Buffalo, SACRA, Matt Urban Center, Rural Outreach Center, Community Concern of WNY, and the Erie County Public Libraries in Springville, Kenmore, Cheektowaga, and Akron to provide this service.

The 23 Library boards, representing the urban, suburban and rural libraries of Erie County, understand the district can be the key to long - term financial stability and sustainability.

The Vietnamese project brings books and the know - how to establish libraries to rural communities, while the project in Thailand aims to improve the integration of the Patani Malay minority by providing teaching in their own language.

Second, the telecom industry argued, self - provisioning could create perverse incentives for companies not to serve rural areas, by taking two of those communities» best potential customers (schools and libraries) off the private market.

Programs cuts are happening in the areas of music, business, library, math, foreign language, speech, extracurricular, and many rural students get only core classes and some vocational education.

In a finding that speaks to the vital role that libraries play, it was those libraries that serve rural communities that reported the highest book circulation numbers, largely due to the lack of bookstores in these communities and the unavailability of «one day delivery lockers» or Sunday delivery from online retailers.

Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library — Hoopa, CA Year: 2007 Amount: $ 10,000 Grant: National Award for Library Service As California's only joint county - tribal library on an Indian reservation, the Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library has become a center for the rural community of Hoopa Valley, connecting thousands of residents of all ages with Native American reading materials, computer access and the prospect of a better life through literacy.

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This is especially prevalent in rural Canada, where the bulk of public libraries reside.

Observations of school library impact at two rural Ugandan schools.

Voices, an essay by Susan Rivers In the summer of 2014, I was in the library near my home in rural South Carolina.

According to Jeff Jankowski, owner and founder of hoopla digital — who has over 25 years of experience working with libraries — public libraries are an evergreen, reliable, and trusted channel, offering publishers over 12,000 outlets reaching urban, suburban and rural communities and serving a complete audience demographic.

We're in the process of running a pilot program with a group that will be entirely interacting through the API (the libraries involved include large metros, as well as small rural).

The needs of big - city libraries, intended for scholars and other researchers, not just the public at large, are rather different from those of small - town and rural libraries — especially in poorer communities.

The library's new e-book collection will probably attract new academic patrons given the concentration of computer - savvy users at four universities and colleges located in the most rural area of western Virginia.

And because of the library cuts, many in the province — especially those in rural areas — will lose basic Internet access.»

In the Progressive Era they labored to cleanse cities from corruption of political machines; they promoted public health, nursing care, and education for maternity among thousands of women living in rural backwaters and city slums; they fought to end the double standard and to promote enlightened policies of population control; and they encouraged support for schools, museums, and libraries.

At each of these 4 very rural libraries, I gave talks on the novel's historic background, with the librarian's help did audiobook giveaways of my first novel.

National Bookmobile Day was started in 2010 and is sponsored by the American Library Association, the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services, and the Association for Rural & Small Libraries to honor mobile delivery outreach as a vital part of library service in the United States.

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The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

They are also called libraries, and Kris De Decker of No - Tech Magazine points us to a lovely post by Brian Kaller, a former newspaper reporter now living in rural Ireland.

How do we encourage the creation of library systems (or consortia) that can meet the increasingly sophisticated technology - driven needs of libraries — whether urban or rural?