According to an article in The Bookseller, the library system in Lincolnshire has mounted a legal campaign with the help of public interest attorneys to overturn their council's decision to make sweeping cuts to library spending, a decision that the campaign founders state was made without attempting to look for alternatives and is in violation of UK law
regarding library access.
Not exact matches
The writers accurate use of common names of the time shows they had
access to reliable information about the people and places involved in the history of Jesus and that their writings took place at about the same time as the events (there would have been no way to
access information
regarding names of that time hundreds of years after the period, remember, no books, no
libraries, etc..)
Among the study findings: * 98 % of
libraries provide free public
access to Wi - Fi, up from 89 % in 2012; * 98 % provide technology training, ranging from internet safety and privacy to coding to using social media; * 98 % provide assistance completing online government forms; * 97 % provide online homework help; * 95 % offer workforce development training programs; * 90 % offer e-books, up from 76 % in 2012; * 56 % offer health and wellness programs
regarding developing healthy lifestyles; * 50 % offer entrepreneurship and small business development programs; and * Average number of computers provided by
libraries is now 20, up from 16 in 2012
The five schools were selected from a pool of more than 1,000, and were examined in depth,
regarding the following characteristics: organization; collection; participation in committees; principal support; technology
access, use, and integration; collaboration and teaching; impact; usage; promotion; collaboration with the public
library; and strengths.
The varying rental periods will provide students
access to e-books and will eliminate worries
regarding rental fines, due dates and whether the
library or book store has sufficient copies stocked for university courses.
The following open letter was released by American Library Association (ALA) President Maureen Sullivan
regarding Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin refusal to provide
access to their e-books in U.S.
libraries.
The restrictions
regarding access to the
library play a fairly large part in this.
The ebook
library lending policies of the Big Six publishers garner most of the attention, because public
libraries regard access to best - selling titles as a critical service.
Speaking at Develop Sony have revealed some interesting
regarding how the Playstation 4's digital
library system is going to work, namely that you'll be able to log in to your account from anybodies console and
access your entire roster of downloaded titles.
Most university
libraries already have robust resource
access programs for distance learning students; legal materials aren't special in this
regard.
Hmmmm As
regards Simon's comments about online
access to news — perfectly true of course and I look at a wide range of newspapers online regularly, but its not the same as spreading out a real paper — and our students are like Neil's in this
regard in that the newspaper stand, just inside the door, is rapidly becoming the most popular part of the
library.
Yale law
library's Open
Access publishing initiative produces enormous download rates for its authors, and makes the material available to scholars and others all over the world, without
regard to their location or their institution's budgetary priorities.