Sentences with phrase «stories about libraries»

Even if you don't have the book, you'll enjoy Gene and Bill having a good time together, telling stories about libraries and cartooning.

I've had two stories about libraries published this year, one in Eating My Words, the official anthology of National Flash Fiction Day, and the other in Change The Ending, which used flash fiction to foster positive outcomes for local government — an unusual and inventive use of fiction!

I've had two stories about libraries published this year, one in Eating My Words, the official anthology of National Flash Fiction Day, and the other in Change The Ending, which...

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While its readership is almost entirely liberal Protestant and its subscription base is in libraries that have long taken it to fill the «Protestant» category among periodicals, the Century is still a standard, albeit declining, referent in journalistic stories about religion in America.

It's basically a story about this guy who discovers that someone's highlighted words in the library — each book has got one word highlighted and there is some mystery involved and all that.

They had bought brand new wooden blocks for the children's library and held a block party for the kids to play with them and hear stories read to them about shapes.

When my daughter was about a month old, I started taking her to playgroups like story time classes at the local library and circle time at Ontario Early Years Centres.

Books about teeth and going to the dentist are great stories for bedtime and story time, and they're the perfect additions to the waiting room library.

Lawyers for six former trustees suing to get their positions back after they were kicked out by Mayor de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz revealed in court papers the library has retained a high - powered former federal judge to probe leaks that led to a series of stories in The News about library director Thomas Galante's $ 392,000 salary and his free - spending ways.

The Queens Library has retained a high - priced ex-judge to probe leaks about the salary and spending of library boss Thomas Galante, which led to several stories in The News.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

For years, he says, he told the story of how he had gone «deep into the bowels» of Harvard's library to find a book by his father about what should be done with Nazis «too unimportant to be hung at Nuremberg.»

Apparently, being pregnant also makes you a prime candidate for hearing everyone else's birth story, because by time my due date rolled around in September, I had heard about episiotomies, c - sections, epidurals gone wrong, tearing, vomiting and every other birth complication from family, friends, and random women in the grocery store and library.

I could write about outdoor Pre-Grounded yoga that works, why you should teach professional development yoga for pre-school teachers, sweet family classes on Saturday afternoons with mamas and daughters holding hands in Savasana, weaving in story, how to overcome the naysayers and teach 0 - 3, how to rock a library story time — the few sweet successes I've experienced so far.

The way people communicate and get acquainted has changed, and now you can hear far less stories about meeting someone at library, cafe, or park.

Ensuring that it doesn't get left behind in the» stories about affluent white folks struggling with daddy issues» arms race, Netflix has announced that it's picking up Noah Baumbach's latest film for its online streaming library.

Stories about space were read aloud to the children, topic books were left in the classroom library for them to explore and «read».

Sullivan's bios are bound to motivate students to explore library and Internet resources to learn more about these important men and women, but the stories have great potential for serving an even higher purpose — for instilling in readers of all backgrounds the importance of discipline, pride, perseverance, and education!

Students may pen slogans about the trait of the month, and a special section of the library might be designed to offer students easy access to the biographies and other stories of people who exemplify the best of each trait.

October is Canadian Library Month, and the Canadian Library Association is inviting people from across the country to tell their stories about how libraries have touched their lives and opened up new opportunities.

Presentations include current and timeless research, classroom rituals and routines that support engaging reading communities, classroom and home library development, book recommendations, practical reading and writing workshop strategies and instructional moves, and personal stories about the power of independent reading and student choice.

And if what Mr. Zusak shared with his audience of nearly 500 fans at a local library on a Saturday night gave me the story - writing bug, I'm willing to bet it can help you get your students — especially your struggling readers and reluctant writers — a little more excited about creating their own stories.

We heard many stories about SBAC testing that are common to high - stakes, standardized tests: the tests dramatically disrupted the educational process, deprived students of hours of instructional time, reduced stressed out students to tears, and monopolized the computer labs and libraries in service of test administration for weeks at a time.

Queens Library Magazine combines great library - themed feature stories and two months» worth of information about our free programs, services, and special events, and it's available at your neighborhood library or...

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

• Today, you can submit a «six word story» on Twitter about why you belong at the library.

And finally, for those looking for a lighter read, Nora Ephron once more taps into the thoughts and concerns of «women of a certain age» with I Remember Nothing (Nov. 9), a follow - up to the major bestseller I Feel Bad About My Neck, while Vicki Myron returns to the subject of her beloved «small - town library cat» with Dewey's Nine Lives (Oct. 12), a collection of stories about and inspired by DAbout My Neck, while Vicki Myron returns to the subject of her beloved «small - town library cat» with Dewey's Nine Lives (Oct. 12), a collection of stories about and inspired by Dabout and inspired by Dewey.

When the CBC runs a story about e-books and the library they turn to experts in the field, including the Toronto City Librarian Vickery Bowles and Good e-Readers own Michael Kozlowski.

An invitation to speak at a local library, a handout asking for authors with interesting books and interesting stories to appear on either a regular or Internet radio show, teachers eager to bring their book into their school library, not to mention the opportunity to learn ever so much about book promotion from the more seasoned authors.

Those titles include Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers (2012) Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained (2013 — co-authored with Jenny Jelen), Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries (2014), Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region (2016) and Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales about Hospitals, Sanatoriums and Other Institutions (2017 - co-authored with Rhonda Parrish) and the forthcoming Macabre Montreal: Ghostly Tales, Ghastly Events and Gruesome True Stories (co-authored with Shayna Krishnasamy)

* About the Don Camillo books: Starting in 1946, Giovannino Guareschi wrote more than 300 stories about the hot - headed parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy - if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local librAbout the Don Camillo books: Starting in 1946, Giovannino Guareschi wrote more than 300 stories about the hot - headed parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy - if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local librabout the hot - headed parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy - if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local library).

Today Amazon announced Kindle Lending for Libraries, we give you the full story of what it is all about, how you can get borrowing and lots more.

Presentations include current and timeless research, classroom rituals and routines that support engaging reading communities, classroom and home library development, book recommendations, practical reading and writing workshop strategies and instructional moves, and personal stories about the power of independent reading and student choice.

librarians supplement English by teaching students about print, non-print, and electronic resources available in the library, fictional story elements, and types of literature.

Have a library success story to share about your own book?

Providing schools and libraries with current and relatable stories, and Kindle devices on which to read and share them, allows libraries to do community outreach, to conduct group reading sessions, to expose kids to the power of stories, and help them learn about their world.

The final story — «Upwardly Mobile», about a mobile library — was chosen for inclusion in Change the Ending, an anthology of flash fiction about the future of public life.

As mentioned in our story about the «bookless library» BiblioTech in San Antonio and its use of SELF - e, the program is moving into high gear as libraries around the country sign on as subscribers to SELF - e's collections of independently produced ebooks.

As numbers come out and we learn at least enough about the big success stories to determine how little of the cash pool was available for other authors to divvy up, we should be able to get a clearer picture of how well somebody can expect to do through this program, After all, even if you were only making $ 1 per book sold on each of your hypothetical 30 annual sales through Barnes & Noble, that's better than getting nothing at all from a lending library for Kindle owners.

In today's stories, we talk about #booknerdproblems, mysterious library returns, aspect ratios, copyright and more.

Read my story at the Huffington Post about how the Los Gatos Public Library held a series of educational workshops for library patrons, aspiring authors and library staff.

More Inclusions: - Pre-arrival preference form to allow Butlers to tailor and customize each guest's experience - Personalized VIP arrival and private escort to the Royal Service Lounge - Dramatic new two - story Royal Service Lounge featuring a library, magazines, international newspapers, DVD movie library, CD music library, cultural corner withinformation about the DR, area maps, sustainable initiatives and more, Wi - Fi and complimentary use of iPads.

I've repeated this story enough times that I'm no longer sure it is even true: Way back in 1995, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, we introduced volume one, number one, of legal.online, the first - ever newsletter about how lawyers could use the Internet.

When I taught Reference Skills at the now defunct Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies (R.I.P.) I would have my students read T.C. Boyle's short story, «We are Norsemen» about a Viking raid on a monastery, where at the story's conclusion, the monk in charge of the library is killed and the invaders burn the place down.

Mary Ellen Bates in her article on Library Metrics lists a number of qualitative methods that libraries can use to measure the value of what they provide, suggesting that «instead of telling their management that they handled X research requests, [the library staff] tell stories about the project that saved the company from going into an unprofitable market, identified a new competitor, and so on.»

Anyone who works in libraries can share a story about someone whose need for information was vital.

The CLA / CALL intervention was in response to a CBC News story about cuts to library hours and library staff in a number of federal correctional facilities.

In the wake of the (ultimately false) report that the federales had visited a student becuase he requested Mao's Little Red Book (See: The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Borrow the wrong book and get it personally delivered by the feds; and then The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Story about feds visiting after request for Mao book is a hoax), the UMass Dartmouth and Penn libraries are trying to reassure patrons that their records are safe.

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