Sentences with phrase «than my library says»
Not sure about OneClick digital because I haven't heard of them before, other than my library says they've discontinued OneClick in favor of OverDrive.
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/ Not exact matches
Hulu wouldn't say how many channels would be included in the service, whether or not there'll be more than one subscription tier, exactly how much content will be in its on - demand library, how many hours of cloud DVR will be included, what the search function looks like, a firm release date, or a price point besides «under $ 40.»
«I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on «Beauty and the Beast» and have a better library than she had,» Bennett says, referring to the 1991 Walt Disney movie, which he watches with his four - year - old daughter, Austyn Jett.
Next it was time to decide what to do for the day, library or park are the usual choices and we ended up going to play on the slide as Alex definitely got more excited when I said «slide» than when I said «books».
But park officials said they would rather build a structure at the corner of the park than expand the current library in the middle of the park.
Buying the library building may be a more economical way to provide preschool space than adding it onto the recreation center, McKenna said.
«Last year, more than 39,000 children and teenagers took advantage of library Summer Reading programs right here in Erie County,» said Mary Jean Jakubowski, Library System director.
Together, we have raised more than $ 67,000 for the libraries in my district,» said Legislator Mills.
«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — In a newly - negotiated deal involving the embattled Brooklyn Heights public library, the developer has promised a bigger library than was previously proposed and a new separate branch built on another site, officials said Thursday afternoon.
«The millions of families who rely on the Queens Library services deserve nothing less than a world - class library system,» said Borough President KATZ.
In addition to potentially using library and NYCHA space, the mayor's office plans to generate the needed seats through a combination of converting the more than 27,000 existing half - day pre-K seats in public schools and community - based programs, as well as getting non-Universal Pre-K-compliant programs into the fold, sources said.
«After screening a natural compound library, we developed an unbiased look at combinations of nutrients that have a better effect on prostate cancer than existing drugs,» says corresponding author Stefano Tiziani, assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dell Pediatric Research Institute at UT Austin.
The university library will cover any associated fees, she says, which administrators expect to be less expensive than the license agreement.
With a growing library of flicks like Bright and Mudbound (and First They Came for My Father and The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja and 1922 and a whole range of other movies) combined with the standup specials pouring forth from the streaming service and a hot new show once every couple months — to say nothing of the increasingly unimportant back catalog of Hollywood titles — it's hard to think of a better value for your dollar than the eleven bucks Netflix's streaming service runs you each month.
«It's a lot harder to cut a program in seventy - five schools than a program in three schools,» says Gina Jacquart Thorsen, vice president of research and program development for Big Thought, the nonprofit organization that coordinates ArtsPartners and Thriving Minds, an expanded initiative to infuse creative learning into the curriculum, after - school and out - of - school programs, libraries, and neighborhood cultural centers.
Her library has been repurposed as a social space rather than, as she said, «a book warehouse.»
In our PTO and PTA Leaders Facebook group, leaders whose schools have set up a Little Free Library say it's important to think about it differently than a regular library.
Additionally, library users in this group are less likely than younger patrons to say their library use has decreased, and they are much more likely to say that various library services are very important to them and their family.
Pew Research has said that less than 38 % are actually aware their library has a digital collection and only 6 % have actually borrowed one.
James Larue of the Douglas County Library system recently said «libraries and taxpayers who support libraries are being ripped off in ways that not only outrageously inflate the payment to publishers (surely their costs are not three times greater to provide the book to us than to the consumer), they also greatly reward distributors.
Looking specifically at technology use at libraries, we found that as a group, patrons under age 30 are more likely than older patrons to use libraries» computers and internet connections, but less likely to say these resources are very important to them and their families — particularly the youngest patrons, ages 16 - 17.
Despite their higher rates of library usage overall, younger Americans — particularly those under age 25 — continue to be less likely than older adults to say that if their local public library closed it would have a major impact on either them and their family or on their community.
Libraries say it's because publishers are sometimes charging them more than $ 100 per copy — and they can't afford it.
The GALAXY Tab 7.7 is said to be the first mobile tablet to include a pre-loaded Game Hub that lets user access easy social games, all delivered with fast graphics; the Readers Hub offers a robust library filled with more than 2.3 million books, 2,000 newspapers and 3,000 magazines in up to 49 languages; and the Social Hub service lets you view your emails, contacts, calendar and social network connections into a single interface.
«Every year in the past few years the borrowing of ebooks has more than doubled,» said Christina de Castell, director, resources and technology for the library.
«It was a lot more complicated for us than we expected,» said Smashwords founder Mark Coker, «We're giving libraries the option to slice and dice by multiple categories and multiple filters.
«It's clearer than ever that young people need coding skills, and libraries are the perfect place to teach those skills,» said ALA President Julie B. Todaro.
If there are sectors of society that, say for financial reasons, could not buy books, it would make more sense for the taxpayer and ratepayer to subsidise their book purchases than to pay for an expensive library system whose main purpose is to give the books away.
The law also covers contemporary library books and resources for school libraries after a study revealed that many library books were more than 15 years old — which did not include the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, Lance says.
«I think libraries have never been more important than they are right now,» Anderson says.
Amazon said Wednesday that its popular Kindle e-reader will allow customers to borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 U.S. libraries starting later this year.
These high schoolers are more likely than other age groups to use the library, including for research and book - borrowing,» said Kathryn Zickuhr of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a co-author of the report.
«Yet their appreciation for these library services doesn't quite match up — almost half of 16 - 17 year - olds say that the library is not important or «not too important» to them and their family, significantly more than other age groups.»
«Our usage is going up as well,» said Platt as he pointed out that New York libraries loaned more than 28 million items in 2010.
More than three quarters (76 %) of American adults say libraries serve the learning and educational needs of their communities either «very well» (37 %) or «pretty well» (39 %), according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Earlier this year more than 60 science and math faculty members signed a letter to university librarian M. Elizabeth Cowell complaining they hadn't been adequately consulted on which books could be discarded and which ones had to be saved She said all of the books that were moved or destroyed — about 60 % of the library's collection — were used infrequently and could be accessed online or through UC interlibrary loans.
High - school - aged readers were more likely to have borrowed the last book they read from the library than they are to have bought it, a pattern that soon reverses for older adults — almost six in ten readers in their late twenties said they had purchased their last book.
Amazon (s amzn) said on Wednesday that it will roll out a Kindle Lending Library later this year, which will allow users of the popular e-reader to borrow books from more than 11,000 libraries throughout the United States.
The organization's top executive, Vickery Bowles, said publishers charge vastly different prices to libraries than average consumers, and the ebooks come also with many usage restrictions.
Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.»
And library card holders were also more likely than non-holders to say they will be buying a tablet in the coming months.
Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.
Since that time, Google has digitized 15 million books from 35,000 publishers and more than 40 libraries, and from more than 100 countries, Crawford said.
Users of the Kindle e-reader and Amazon's e-reading app for other devices can now borrow e-books from more than 11,000 U.S. libraries, the online retailer said Wednesday.
In fact, I'll actually be moving slightly out of Indianapolis city proper and be donating to said library each year so I can still be a member for much less than 9.99 a month.
That said, students are more likely to run across the very most empathy - growing books through their local libraries than by merely surfing around at Amazon for the most action - filled potboilers.
What they have said is that they have a hybrid 2.2 and 2.3 system where they have included what they determined to be the beneficial packages / libraries from 2.3 in the system rather than doing a full 2.3 update.
«With the addition of Kobo's tremendous eBook library, Walmart has shown its commitment to offer its customers not only a top - rated device, but also extensive content making it easier than ever to enjoy the eReading experience,» said Todd Humphrey, executive vice president of business development, Kobo.
The number of books Amazon has made available for the Kindle - more than 260,000 so far - is «huge» compared to the 50,000 to 60,000 books generally available through libraries for the blind, he said.