Sentences with phrase «popular uses of libraries»

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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.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

littleBits, created to integrate art and design into science, technology, engineering, and math, is popular in libraries due to its ease of use, letting the student jump right into tinkering and building.

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music.

A popular speaker and presenter, Barnes is also a Discovery Education Network Star Educator and the creator of Learnitin5.com, a library of videos that demonstrates how to use any Web 2.0 and social media application in the classroom.

OverDrive continues to be the most popular library wholesaler, with 88 % of firms using their service.

Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]

Back by popular demand: Socks that remind you of those library cards we used to see stuck in the front of books.

The act of borrowing printed books is still by far the most popular activity at libraries, even compared with using computers: 64 % of library users ages 16 and older checked out a book in the last 12 months, compared with 29 % who used a computer at the library in the same time frame.

But if it is popular and exceeds the licensed number of uses, the library has to pay for the same book again, as if it were a physical object.

These tablets are still in use and still popular today as they provide access to all of the library's online resources.

I envision a variety of business models in use, but if nothing else, libraries could buy multiple e-copies (or at least «copies» as they would exist for accounting purposes) of popular e-books, just as they can now under arrangements with OverDrive and other vendors.

While both devices let users lend books to friends and both platforms support library - lending, the Nook Tablet also supports the popular ePub format that's used in a number of other stores and free book collections.

It's one of the most popular platforms used in public libraries in the US.

«The issue is the availability of popular content, like fiction best sellers, which library users are demanding and using in ever - increasing numbers.

University of Ottawa Law Library's Law Research Guides are using the very versatile LibGuides format which is popular with many academic libraries.

i am sympathetic to the desire of the holding library to leverage their «popular» items to enhance access to less popular items in their collection (tying nicely in to slaw's «grey literature» discussion of the previous week), but rather than impose a contract on the recipients of the copies, a more preferable model would be the one used for the alberta law collection.