Sentences with phrase «other library systems»

Toronto Star reports that Toronto Public Library has finally caught up with other library systems and bookstores by allowing food and drinks in most areas of its 99 branches... [more]

Toronto Star reports that Toronto Public Library has finally caught up with other library systems and bookstores by allowing food and drinks in most areas of its 99 branches.

We can loan those books through other library systems and we can put them on hold, incurring no costs for that book beyond the initial purchase.

Multnomah County Library joins nearly 50 other library systems offering Hoopla, including peers like Seattle Public Library and Los Angeles Public Library.

Other library systems may have different registration requirements, rules and fees.

«We're using it at all 73 library locations, but we've also gotten requests from other library systems to provide it to them,» he said.

The laundry list of recommendations went on to suggest a merger of the Brooklyn Public Library with other library systems as Adams believed «the public library system [in New York City] is not a proper working model» and how libraries have «suffered due to inconsistent and unpredictable funding streams.»

Queens Library is an independent, not - for - profit corporation and is not affiliated with any other library system.

Not exact matches

If they don't have them, use your interlibrary loan system to request them from other libraries.

An IDNYC card can also be used at all branches of all three of New York City's public library systems and be used to obtain discounts and other benefits at museums and cultural institutions, entertainment venues, pharmacies and fitness centers.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System maintains popular, diverse, distinctive and specialized collections throughout its 37 libraries, which are located from one end of Erie County to the other.

During a marathon session I voted to restore funding to the public library system and several other agencies.

On Saturday, February 1, Oz themed family programming will complement «Take Your Child to the Library Day» at the Central Library, as well as at other Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries throughout the 37 - member Library System.

Christine Bazan, director, Cheektowaga Public Libraries and Mark Weber, chairman of the Cheektowaga Library Board of Trustees welcomed Mary Ann Stiefvater, the PCC project coordinator representing the New York State Education Department; Thomas Mazur, Erie County legislator; Mary Holtz, Cheektowaga Town supervisor and Mary Jean Jakubowski, director, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System, as well as other dignitaries.

«As the Kindle, Nook, iPads and other reading devices become more and more popular, libraries have become the best resource for free downloadable books,» said Mary Jean Jakubowski, director, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System.

Similar agreements in the past with Syracuse and the towns have established county control over libraries, the zoo, the former MacArthur stadium, the 911 system and other services.

Marshall has directed more dollars to libraries than any other borough president, and in the past decade the Queens system has remodeled more than half of its locations.

«The lipidoid material screen is just an example demonstrated in this article; a similar strategy can be readily extended to other libraries or other organ systems,» Peng adds.

Google and other internet search engines, library websites, learning management systems and Facebook all ranked higher.

Having these access control cards also has its other uses as well, such as controlling our lunch system and the borrowing of library books, but it is very much a way of ensuring the security and safety of everyone on site.

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

An LMS with a wide API and Integration library makes it possible to automate some of the routine LMS data exchange tasks by integrating it with the organization's third - party HRIS, HRMS, employee database, or any other system.

These include buying school materials (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self - formed teams in multiplayer online role - playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even transgressing and testing social norms.

Utilizing a sophisticated technology system to analyze student feedback against a large library of aggregate data, YouthTruth also consults and informs school leaders to make meaningful decisions on other hotbutton issues such as school safety, teacher professional development and classroom engagement.

The complaint goes on to state that the school, which currently enrolls 70 students in grades K - 8, fails to educate students in any subjects other than basic reading, writing and math; it lacks a system to provide special education; it's understaffed and the teachers it does employ are underqualified; it doesn't have a functioning library; and teachers and administrators use excessive and exclusionary discipline on the children.

We specialize in eLearning content authoring tools, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Template & Asset Libraries and other related software that enables educators, trainers, content developers and instructional designers — and their organizations — to produce and manage highly effective learning experiences for their clients, students and staff.

The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full - text articles, full - textbooks, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet; and provide an easy - to - use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other library materials for free from participating Michigan libraries.

Although OverDrive has long served schools libraries, these days the company is pushing harder to get schools to use its system for another purpose: Borrowing textbooks and other materials for students to use in the classroom.

The platform provides a secure, searchable content repository and delivery system that is connected to a large network of retailers, library suppliers and other e-book providers, allowing publishers to move digital content from their organization to any channel partner globally.

There's a cost for them to ingest, manage and lend even free books (Adobe charges libraries for each lend, even of free books), so they're unlikely to want free books that aren't going to get read (there's a need in the marketplace for a free open source DRM checkout system that libraries can use, but that's a matter for another time, and some entrepreneur other than yours truly).

Other thing I'm doing you didn't mention is promoting my book through the branches of the city's public library system (Toronto has 100 library branches) either on my own through their author proposal submission or directly to the library branch if I have a connection to the librarian there.

Detail: I am grateful to the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks.net, Smashwords and some other sources of public domain and commercial e-books for supporting the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), which is a good way to help turn $ 20 phones into little libraries and also let people bypass oppressive centralization.

As a result of OCLC's work with W3C, WorldCat entities are marked up in the schema.org vocabulary to allow search engines and other systems to mine and retrieve information from library data.

CAROLYN REIDY: It also makes it very easy for them to share their books with other libraries within their own system, or even around the country.

I was pleased to learn from Renee DiPilato, the library system's deputy director, that the libraries used both quantitative and qualitative methodology in the survey and among other things «used both mobile and landlines» and «nine focus groups.»

Not only have we invested in content in this consortium since 2005, but we have benefited from the continued investment and continued growth of the collection thanks to ongoing contributions of the 19 other member library systems.

They allow users to browse the entire library's database of books in their system and allows them to check out books onto their tablets or other computers.

ARCs should be sent to someone in your public library system, to media such as Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and certain other media who are likely to review the kind of book you've written.

Currently, the company is working on more solutions for the other major ILS systems currently being used for libraries in the USA.

Overdrive has just reported that 49 library systems in the U.S. and two other countries have set a new record for lending more than one million digital books in 2016.

I think is a huge competitive advantage for authors because they can finally get proper distribution into the public library system, but also other retailers such as TuneIn, Scribd and Barnes and Noble.

Among other advantages of the dual - system approach, this would be a way to help make certain that small - town libraries don't fall through the cracks.

The New York Public Library, the Douglas County system in Colorado, and other libraries are already doing work in the book app area.

Readium LCP is designed to integrate with the Readium open source code library for EPUB reading systems, although Readium can integrate with other DRMs, and in fact there are Readium implementations that support multiple DRMs at the same time.

If on the other hand you'd rather get your reading material from your local library system (s), Overdrive has your back.

With its open architecture, BLUEcloud can connect to a registrar's site or learning management system, better integrating your library with other school functions.

You can use Bluefire to read DRM encrypted ebooks from other bookstores or, potentially, libraries, many of which use the Adobe DRM system to expire ebooks at the end of their loan period.

So perhaps Buffett, Gates and other billionaires can themselves finance a new national endowment to help fund two separate but tightly intertwined national digital library systems — one public, one academic.

«Many other ILS vendors say that they have a fully integrated eBook system for libraries, but unlike the others, this one is live and working at a real library, thanks to the hard work of 3M, Polaris and Baltimore County Public Library staff.

New feature with the Kindle Touch and the other models from 4th generation of the Kindle ereaders is the ability to share books via the public library system.