Sentences with phrase «public library which»

The museum also has a public library which contains over 100,000 books, 1,000 videos and 3,500 sound recordings.
You can borrow and store up to 6,000 eBooks directly from your public library which is ideal for anyone who wants to try and tick off some novels from their must - read list.
To each their own, but I'll stick with my local public library which is free if I wish to check out a book.

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High - scoring residents are shown outside the public library and in residential communities and villages, which are already operating their own trial social credit systems.
Last week the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is closing five of its seven libraries, allowed scientists, consultants and members of the public to scavenge through what remained of Eric Marshall Library belonging to the Freshwater Institute at the University of Manitoba.
A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.
Several years back, after many years of public exhibits in my local public library that included a wide variety of subjects, one of which had been recognition of October being «National Gay & Lesbian History Month»... all H — L broke loose in several city council meetings.
We had to take those issues seriously for these menus, especially because it's a project for a public library, which is available to everyone in this city.
Sistrunk and 20 or so boys from his youth sports program recently marched outside the Chicago Public Library demanding that New York City artist Eric Fischl's oil painting Boys at Bat, which is hanging in the library's cultural center as part of a touring baseball art exhibition, be removed.
While some areas of the university are closed to the public (you can't go inside most of the libraries), you should check out Christ Church College, which is not only beautiful, but was also the inspiration for Hogwarts» Great Hall in Harry Potter world.
Today's public libraries are chockfull of resources for you and your kids, most of which are free or at very low cost.
It is the sweeping nature of the public services affected - including courts, libraries council services and driving test centres - which marks today out as being unusual, however.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) recently traveled to Plattsburgh to oppose President Donald Trump's proposed budget, which would eliminate funding from four agencies that fund art organizations, museums, libraries and public broadcasting affiliates.
«His experience will be a valuable addition to the Board, which is entrusted with governing our borough's great public library system, and we thank him for his service.»
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.
«The beauty and grace of India's culture is reflected in these books, which we are proud to make available for all to enjoy through our local public libraries.
Libraries will benefit significantly from this year's state budget, which includes the biggest year - to - year increase in aid for the public institutions in seven years.
To avoid a situation in which only undocumented immigrants apply for the card, which could create a stigma and make some unwary about the I.D.s, Mr. de Blasio's administration has rolled out many perks for all New Yorkers who sign up — including yearlong memberships to cultural institutions like the Bronx Zoo and access to all three of the city's public library systems.
The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System sponsored the 14th annual Battle of the Books event which brought 500 spectators rooting for their library teams to the South Campus of Erie Community College.
The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 3.2 million materials such as books, magazines, eBooks, CDs, DVDs and rare materials including popular, diverse and specialized collections which can be found throughout its 37 libraries and the Library on Wheels Bookmobile.
Operational data including circulation, program attendance, door counts, collection development activities, and public access computer use were reviewed by a staff Working Group (which included Central Library, Buffalo branches, contract member libraries and administration staff members).
They were to provide the sources of knowledge with which the Buffalo Public and the Grosvenor Libraries, the city's two greatest democratic cultural institutions (later brought together in the Buffalo & Erie County Library), could educate the city's architects and its diverse population in the traditions of the world's cultural riches.
Hudson Companies, in partnership with Marvel Architects, plans to build a 36 - story tower, which will hold 139 condo units and a 21,500 - square - foot library operated by the Brooklyn Public Library system.
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.
This bill, which is sponsored by Assemblymember Jeffery Dinowitz in the New York State Assembly, will ensure New Yorkers visiting a public library are not exposed to second hand smoke by prohibiting smoking within 100 feet from its entrances or exits.
The project will also create a new Teen Center and Cyber Center, extend outward and replace the library's current set - back front entrance, add a skylight to the library's interior atrium (which is currently not used for library service) and reopen the atrium to the public, and install new network cabling, furniture, shelving, signage, flooring, ceilings and lighting.
The first phase would convert 51 % of the Library's collection housed in the Central, Buffalo branch and Amherst Libraries using funds from an Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority (ECFSA) efficiency grant, which would provide the opportunity to use technology to improve public service and achieve staffing savings realized as attrition occurs.
The Brooklyn Public Library will receive $ 52 million from the sale, about $ 40 million of which will fund improvements at other branches, according to David Woloch, the library's executive vice president for external affairs.
He used library accounts to obtain and then make available millions of court records from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, which charges for access to documents.
«The router technology that lets some countries restrict access to certain information is the same as that which lets our public libraries limit access to unsuitable content.
Established in 1964, NSU now includes 16 colleges, the 215,000 - square - foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK - 12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development with specialists in Autism, the world - class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, which is Florida's largest public library.
Schloss Meyenburg which was build in the early 1400 was restored and turned into a Museum that includes a Fashion Museum, Historical Museum & a public library.
I chose Kobo because it uses the epub file format which is what most public libraries offer (you can borrow library books without leaving the house!).
«The Public» is set in the Midwest during a brutal cold front, which prompts a group of homeless library patrons who refuse to leave Cincinnati's downtown public library at closing time when they learn that emergency shelters have reached capPublic» is set in the Midwest during a brutal cold front, which prompts a group of homeless library patrons who refuse to leave Cincinnati's downtown public library at closing time when they learn that emergency shelters have reached cappublic library at closing time when they learn that emergency shelters have reached capacity.
(5:48) has DeVito and Perlman advocate the use of public libraries, the fun of which is illustrated in a youth group outing that includes a reading of Matilda by Roald Dahl's daughter.
Availability: Public Enemies is available on Blu - ray and DVD, which can be obtained from Netflix or your local video store / library, and to rent or purchase from the major digital services.
Frederick Wiseman on the making of his exquisite Ex Libris: New York Public Library, which is about the role of the library in society.
Everything has to be applied for online, but Blake has no computer, no smartphone, no internet, and is mortifyingly incompetent at using the terminals in his public library, which crash or freeze just as he is reaching the end of the form, so he must go back to the beginning.
Another resource worth pointing out is the USPTO's directory, which is a great way to find public libraries and other facilities that are available to help students conduct research outside of school.
Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders?
In fact, when the world's richest man started his philanthropic work, in the mid-1990s, he was handing out computers to public libraries, which seemed a perfectly reasonable endeavor for a former computer geek who runs the world's largest software company.
For example, in addition to information on achievement (which must include more than test score data), the public needs to know if schools lack basics like well - equipped and staffed libraries, art supplies and science labs, and clean bathrooms.
At P.S. 191 — which has neither a library nor an art teacher — «87 percent of the students are black or Hispanic and 84 percent receive some form of public assistance.»
Gardner provided leadership for statewide initiatives such as Texas» higher education planClosing the Gaps by 2015, the college and university electronic library resource sharing consortium, the Texas Accountability System for Higher Education, and the Texas Public Education Information Resource, which includes information on all students enrolled in Texas public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in Public Education Information Resource, which includes information on all students enrolled in Texas public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in public and private higher education institutions in Texas.
It highlights ways in which public libraries are evolving summer programming and exploring practices to assess effectiveness in achieving learning outcomes.
By a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents selected MaryEllen Elia, the recently fired superintendent of Hillsborough County, Florida, to head the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and serve as President of USNY which, in addition to overseeing the entire public K - 12 education system of 7000 schools, oversees more than 240 public and private universities, 7000 libraries, the state archives, special schools for the hearing and visually impaired, over 750,000 licensed professionals, and over 200,000 certified public school teachers.
Tier four called for life - long self - education for which Jefferson proposed public libraries.18
There are many things parents can do which can help young children with reading — read to them, give them books to read, point out letters and words you see in public, let them see you reading, take them to the library.
The Milwaukee Public Library does make use of proxy server technology in order to give city residents access to private databases to which the library subscribes on behalf of its customers.
With your support, we have been successful in securing sponsorship and introduction of Assembly Bill A4500, which would require specific ratios of school library media specialists to students in New Jersey public schools.
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