Sentences with phrase «on public libraries»

In Friday's Law Librarian Conversations podcast (formerly the Law Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public libraries.

But we here in the US are spending over $ 15B a year on public libraries.

When asked if they impose any limit on public libraries in consortia by size of population served, each responded that it does not.

PL and PLonline are the only industry publications focused entirely on public libraries and public librarians.

It says nothing about the program's impact on public libraries.

Here's a really good infographic on public libraries, showing how they are doing.

NPR's Morning Edition today reports on the role libraries play during natural disasters, as part of their series on public libraries.

I'd not previously realized this more nasty aspect of the publishers» attack on public libraries, requiring «OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).»

Although Family Friendly Libraries is focusing on public libraries, its founder says the organization is interested in school, prison, and other libraries as well.

The various proposals are to require filters: a. on all public library computers all the time b. on all public library computers with an «on / off switch» activated by the user c. only on public library computers that children must use d. on no public library computers at any time http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-15-4-a-young-people-and-the-internet-issues-of-censorship-and-free-expression

As I said in a previous post, once again I'm dependent on public library borrows for most of my books, and though they have access to some eBooks through Overdrive, most of the books I'm looking for are not among them.

Who cares about the author of CIPA exposing that the ALA is misleading one third of American communities into leaving their communities exposed to the effects of unlimited pornography on public library computers, right?

If it is, if it's a book that is available, and I suspect «A Tale of Two Cities» is, ideally from your house in your pajamas, if that's your current status, you could hop on a public library website.

it would be so very nice not to be on the public library's waiting list for Mary Kaye's latest book.

Not exact matches

You can advertise on school bulletin boards, at public libraries and community centers, and charge an hourly rate.

The library contained fishery reports on the decline of sturgeon fishing in Lake Winnipeg from the 1890s, said Ayles, and served as invaluable intellectual capital for public researchers at the Freshwater Institute and world famous Experimental Lakes Area.

I live in a state where a woman here is on a crusade to have the Potter books removed from every public school library.

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

This observation was brought delightfully home to me a few months ago, when I dropped a small pile of books on the checkout desk at my neighborhood public library.

There's a public library near here where I can get on the internet.

And by «here» I mean the public library and my cardboard box shelter in the alley where the drunks pizz on me.

A discussion group for mothers could foster personal relationships, with emphasis put on recruiting at the local public library and at the Women, Infants, and Children program office.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

(«No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees «on the public payroll,»» said the court in 1970.

No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries or hospitals into arms of ~ he state or employees «on the public payroll» [Walz v. Tax Commission, 397 U.S. 644, 1970].

Earnest and proper liberals throughout America often express a horror of any limits on Internet access at public libraries.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

Other community groups, such as libraries, professional organizations, public health and safety agencies, the colleges and churches — all could contribute to helping local stations focus much more on their educational obligation to the community.

On our first visit to the WiFi porch at the public library, we each rushed through checking our email and social media so that we could squat in a ditch and pick blueberries.

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

There are countless nursery rhyme books out there, but we hit on a real winner at the public library.

And on Friday, I had the privilege of donating many LeapFrog Tag and Tag Jr Readers to local libraries and public schools.

The link on your other blog goes to a publication library that doesn't allow access by the general public, so I can't look at that study myself, I have to take your word for it.

In the exceedingly excellent How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (public library)-- a necessary addition to these fantastic reads on education — Paul Tough writes of Duckworth's work:

This includes shopping venues, schools, restaurants, libraries and on public transportation.

Also, many hospitals have a medical library inside them and they might let the general public use them (it depends on the hospital).

The Guilderland Public Library will be the first library in the state to sell E-ZPass «On - The - Go» tags, the Thruway Authority announced.

This week I began a month of Town Hall meetings on this subject at a crowded North Collins public library as the communitywide conversation began in earnest.

A group of protesters calling on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to speed up his planned 10 - year timetable for shuttering Rikers Island greeted him and first lady Chirlane McCray as they arrived at the Park Slope public library just before 8 a.m. to cast his ballot.

The New Rochelle Public Library will be closed on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 to allow for pest management treatment of the main library's interior.

This card offers concessions on public transport, allows people to access services like the local leisure centre or library, and also functions as a proof - of - age.

«It's really important that we get a lot of people involved in the political process and when I see folks like Senator Schumer and Congressman Tonko and the governor say they support me, I think we're on the right path,» Tkaczyk said at an endorsement rally in Rotterdam on Tuesday at the public library there.

«I have known Jimmy for many years, and I am greatly impressed with his work on the issues that matter most, like education, transportation, libraries, public safety and quality of life.

Jury assembly, court clerks and a public law library are located on the first floor.

Copies of the proposed budget are available to the community at the Administrative Office of the New Rochelle Public Library and on the library's website at www.nrpl.org.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio votes at a public library in Brooklyn on Election Day on November 7, 2017.

The most popular titles represent the borrowing habits of approximately 260,000 library patrons of all ages who use the 38 local public libraries and the «Library on Wheels» bookmobile.

In addition, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and UB Libraries are collaborating on a special celebration of the Folios called the «Shakespeare Jubilee» at the Downtown Central Library on Thursday, October 13 from 5 - 7 p.m..

The share of funds available to the 37 public libraries in Erie County is supplemented by $ 664,117, with funds provided on a 50 % match of eligible project components.

All 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries and the Books on Wheels Bookmobile are currently offering hundreds of Summer Reading «Build a Better World» programs, including Passport to Reading, Read Down Your Fines, Radio DJ Storytelling, Library Night @ Holland Speedway Races and Library Night @ the Ballpark with the Buffalo Bisons.