Sentences with phrase «school library partner»

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.

Digital content provider OverDrive made a monumental announcement today in saying that Macmillan has made its entire ebook catalog available for the first time for lending through OverDrive's 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...]

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The fact that we are also able to partner with the ingenious charity DonorsChoose.org to donate an entire library of books to a school is a true honor.

In 2011, my colleagues and I at The Lovett School partnered with a design team and invited the larger community, including new and old friends from around the country, to try to answer the question «What might be the future of the K - 12 library?»

«In Australia, we've adapted that into a full teacher training program, where we help teachers understand how to integrate the curriculum into their classrooms and other ways that educational communities - such as libraries and community centres - can use and partner with educators to create digital making spaces, or some version of a Code Club in their school or library.»

AfterZone coordinating councils consist of representatives from key community partners (such as the school principal, a library representative, and a director from the site - management agency) in each AfterZone.

Maker Corps partner sites are youth - serving organizations, such as science centers, children's museums, schools, libraries, and community organizations, looking to develop or grow their maker education programming in order to provide young people with opportunities to tap into and expand their creativity, curiosity, and confidence.

We propose the active participation of the school library media program toward the development of STEM identities among young people by having school librarians (1) provide advisory information on the science - infused books and programs that young people can read — the school librarian as the information specialist; (2) collaborate with STEM teachers and provide intellectual and physical access that further enrichs the STEM learning — the school librarian as the instructional partner; and (3) act as technology allies to help educators and students experiment with new media tools and online communities.»

This information outlines the role of the school library media center as a powerful and active partner in the school instructional program and provides guidance to school library media specialists in the development of best practices for teaching and learning.

SUN partnered with various partners such as libraries, parks, local health clinics, churches, and businesses to provide in - school and wraparound support to students and their families.

They partnered with Beaufort County School District to identify students in need of Internet at home, and then the library managed the checkout and training process.

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.

For BCPS, school library media specialists are critical instructional partners in its schools.

The School Improvement Big Picture organization partners with team members in Lagos, Nigeria to provide used Children's Books (Ages 0 - 12) to kids in Lagos, Nigeria through a lending library and a Children's Book Club.

In addition to music, art, and PE we use the Peer Day Model to convene other specialists: library / media, paraprofessionals, school psychologists / social workers, and principals with their district curriculum specialists, and educators interested in Dance / movement or Theatre to plan with partners.

* Leave with an understanding of the MAKER movement, STEAM initiatives and how their school library (librarian) can be used as a collaborative partner and resource during inquiry based research.

In addition to the digital and social campaigns, THE GREAT AMERICAN READ has sparked nationwide community engagement efforts that will offer stations opportunities to create complementary content; stage community events; partner with libraries, booksellers, charitable organizations, schools, and other entities; and deepen the conversations and connections among people around the country.

«From OverDrive's world headquarters in northeast Ohio to the 50 countries in which our library and school partners reside, we will continue to connect readers with books and institutions by supporting all users and all popular devices, while promoting open industry standard formats and best practices.

Starting today the platform will be available for schools and libraries via a new relationship with an established partner Whitehots.

Now, OverDrive is partnering with HarperCollins on a second installment of the project, this time using a children's book and including school libraries in the experiment.

In support of these diverse communities, libraries and schools partnering with OverDrive are able to integrate a complete multilingual website interface available in 13 languages to search, browse and borrow titles.

It is one of Overdrive's main business partners and does fairly brisk business in schools, libraries, and corporate institutions.

New partners include libraries and schools in Japan, Denmark, South Korea, United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Africa, Ireland, Germany, Thailand, Sweden, Turkey, Luxembourg, Singapore, Malaysia, and Ireland.

More than 500 new international channel partners from 30 countries this year joined the 34,000 libraries and schools worldwide that use digital book services through OverDrive.

OverDrive's implementation of the Digital Bookmobile allows them to support their school and library partners while educating their communities on this service.

It's a free service that OverDrive offers to our library and school partners.

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

Addressing these concerns will require 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.).

OverDrive, a leading distributor of digital content to libraries for patron use, announced today that the 22,000 libraries and schools it partners with generated nearly three billion views of catalog page content in its database of over one million titles among the 192 million registered user logins last year.

The CEO of Overdrive Steve Potash conducted a «Crystal Ball» presentation at the Digipalooza conference where nearly 500 library and school partners from around the world came together with publishing executives in Cleveland to develop plans and enhance the future of the library world.

We distribute to more than 39,000 + retailers, libraries, schools, and distribution partners in 195 countries.

With the growing number of companies that provide academic library content, one of the key features that schools and universities will have to consider is how partnering with one platform over another will affect finances.

«Our stores partner with their local schools and libraries to get the word out in the community.

Essential to this success is the involvement of the schools, libraries, and operational partners that utilize these e-reading solutions.

In 2015, Passports with Purpose partnered with Worldreader to bring digital reading to three libraries in Western Kenya through a fundraising campaign: Jitegemmee Community Library, St. John Community Library, and MAGOSO School Library.

The Big Library Read program is open to all OverDrive library and school partners worldwide.

OverDrive is taking responsibility for tomorrow; together with 38,000 library and school partners worldwide, we strive to delight more readers every day and support education and reading.

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.).»

The articles in this issue, guest edited by Lucy Santos Green, invite readers to consider the possibilities of partnering with school library educators and other higher education faculty to extend the reach of their school library.

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.

«Our library and school partners have been asking for their award - winning titles, and we are pleased to be able to make these valuable titles available now to students and patrons worldwide.»

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.

We propose the active participation of the school library media program toward the development of STEM identities among young people by having school librarians (1) provide advisory information on the science - infused books and programs that young people can read — the school librarian as the information specialist; (2) collaborate with STEM teachers and provide intellectual and physical access that further enrichs the STEM learning — the school librarian as the instructional partner; and (3) act as technology allies to help educators and students experiment with new media tools and online communities.»

OverDrive, the leading eBook, audiobook, music and video distributor for schools and libraries, announced today that six standalone partner libraries have surpassed 1 million digital checkouts from their OverDrive collection in 2013.

The promotion is open to all Overdrive libraries and school partners worldwide.

Committed to the success of its partners, Ingram works closely with publishers, retailers, libraries and schools around the world to provide them with the right products and services to help them succeed in the dynamic and increasingly complex world of content publishing.

So far, libraries already experienced tremendous success by partnering up with schools and universities from all around the country.