Sentences with phrase «public school library partners»

This data, compiled in part from its 6,500 public school library partners, shows that more students than ever before are using smartphones, tablets, and ereaders in the academic... [Read more...]

This data, compiled in part from its 6,500 public school library partners, shows that more students than ever before are using smartphones, tablets, and ereaders in the academic environment, with a 252 % increase in October in school library visits to the lending website from the same time a year ago.

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BCPS's public library partners provide the materials for use in the schools» summer locations.

BCPS's library programs at the school level have designed and delivered innovative initiatives that provide experiential learning, twenty - first - century skill development, and literacy projects through the grants awarded each year by the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools partners.

Nashville Public Library Partners with Local School Libraries to Boost Results for Students.»

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.).»

Now, digital content provider to libraries and schools OverDrive has inked a partnership with Pearson to provide the company's eTexts to its partner academic and public school library members.

At this year's BookExpo America event, OverDrive CEO Steve Potash had some high praise for Hachette's recent embracing of library lending, making 100 % of its catalog available to all public and school libraries who partner for digital content.

E-book platform OverDrive, which enables distribution of digital materials to libraries, schools, and retailers around the world, has partnered with self - publishing service Smashwords to provide public library patrons with access to two hundred thousand titles by eighty thousand different independent authors.

The library partners with eight Multnomah County school districts: Corbett, David Douglas, Centennial, Gresham - Barlow, Parkrose, Portland Public, Reynolds and Riverdale.

The library partners with seven Multnomah County school districts: Centennial, Corbett, David Douglas, Gresham - Barlow, Parkrose, Portland Public and Reynolds.

The Digital Bookmobile supports our public library and school partners in promoting their digital catalog of eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video to their communities.

To celebrate the venture, more than 700 of McGraw - Hill's 2012 and 2013 offerings will be offered at special bundled rates and packages to OverDrive's school and public library partners through the end of this year.

For example, at my library, the La Crosse Public Library in La Crosse, Wis., we recently partnered with the local performing arts center for a production of Wayside School Is Falling Down.

So we're a worldwide company, and our focus is to work with our library and school partners to provide digital content in eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video for their patrons at public and school libraries.»

One way this issue is managed is by partnering with an e-book distributor such as OverDrive, which manages an array of digital content for 18,000 libraries and schools in 21 countries, including 15,000 in the United States.47 OverDrive generally charges public libraries a set fee for use of their checkout system, as well as a fee per title for patrons to borrow.48 The OverDrive catalog for libraries now includes 700,000 copyrighted e-book, audiobook, music, and video titles in 52 languages.

Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries — including ePub, the free, «universal» e-book standard set by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) since 2007, used by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Google Books.50 However, e-book borrowers could not check out books on Amazon's Kindle, the predominant e-reader at the time.51 In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.52

This session will describe how libraries in public and school settings have already engaged in successful early education efforts in their communities, and will describe the benefits of partnering with libraries and librarians.