Sentences with phrase «visit public libraries»

Visit the public library and check out the books your child loves.

This bill, which is sponsored by Assemblymember Jeffery Dinowitz in the New York State Assembly, will ensure New Yorkers visiting a public library are not exposed to second hand smoke by prohibiting smoking within 100 feet from its entrances or exits.

Understandably, students can certainly visit their town's public library, but in addition to attending class all day, most students have after - school jobs and often find it difficult to find the time visit their public library.

While promoting my first book, Sacrifice Fly, I have had the pleasure of visiting public libraries all across the country — if the country ended at Columbia, Missouri, that is.

When I visit my public library, most of its computer seats are in use, which indicates at least a certain amount of citizen awareness of of Internet access at libraries.

The survey also found that while the percentage of Americans who have recently visited a public library in person decreased slightly, the proportion who have used a library website in the past year has increased:

A heartening 99 % say they visit their public library in person as opposed to just borrowing electronic content online, and 66 % also visit their library online.

44 % of those ages 16 and older have visited a public library website; 30 % of Americans have done so in the past 12 months, up from 25 % in 2012.

Women are more likely than men to say they visited a public library or bookmobile (54 % vs. 39 %) or use library websites (37 % vs. 24 %).

For those who enjoy visiting the public library, don't fret.

We ask our book consumers whether they have visited a public library in the last 12 months.

Trends in visiting public libraries have steadied, and many Americans have high expectations for what their local libraries should offer

If your family has young children and this is their first cat, visit the public library for books and videos about pet cats.

Not exact matches

On our first visit to the WiFi porch at the public library, we each rushed through checking our email and social media so that we could squat in a ditch and pick blueberries.

This is probably the biggest (as it is The National Library) public library in the country but I'm hoping to visit other city libraries as well.

Maintaining access to public libraries is particularly needed by residents facing the challenges of coping with a struggling local and national economy who have increasingly turned to their public libraries for assistance, resulting in large increases in projected 2010 library use: visits rising 12 %, circulation rising 12 %, and public access computer use rising 92 % across the System vs. 2007 pre-recessionary levels.

Families with children of all ages are encouraged to visit any of the 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries for fun family programming including crafts, story times, special performers, tours, music, games, movies and more!

For more information about Battle of the Books and all of the free library services, materials, programs and events, visit your neighborhood Buffalo & Erie County Public Library or go to the website at www.BuffaloLib.org.

For more information about all of the free library services, materials, programs and events, visit your neighborhood Buffalo & Erie County Public Library or our website at: www.BuffaloLib.org, Follow us on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/buffalolibrary.central#!.

Ten times more people visit New York State's public libraries each year than attend New York State's professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey games.Libraries: How They Stack Up OCLC 2003.

To join the Winter Reading challenge visit BUFFLIB.ORG or stop by any of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries for details.

To learn more about your Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries, visit: www.BuffaloLib.org.

If you don't have air conditioning consider visiting an air conditioned shopping mall, public libraries, and senior centers.

His greatest adventures these days are visits to the public library to read the newspaper.

These can include things like tutoring offered by the YMCA and Seattle Public Libraries, making home visits, adjusting students» school schedules and placing students in alternative schools that are smaller and specialize in hands - on education.

For more proof that the DPLA and typical public library patrons live on different planets, just look at the Alexa graph to the right — showing how how few people are now visiting the DPLA's Web site.

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.

a. Visit the cookbook section of your local bookstore or public library with a well - stocked cookbook section.

To see if your public library offers download books and more, visit http://search.overdrive.com.

According to ALA, Americans go to school, public and academic libraries more than they visit the movies and there are more libraries than McDonald's fast food joints.

Surveys over the years have shown a very interesting public viewpoint: even among consumers who respond that they rarely or never visit their local libraries, those same... [Read more...]

Surveys over the years have shown a very interesting public viewpoint: even among consumers who respond that they rarely or never visit their local libraries, those same individuals still list access to public libraries as a critical need for communities.

Average visitation per capita at rural public libraries was 6.7 visits per year; the average visitation per capita at rural remote libraries was 7.6 visits per year.

A monthly visit to your local bookstore or public library is a simple action that will help you build useful self - publishing connections.

Overall, 53 % of Americans have had some interaction with a public library in the past year — either through an in - person visit, a library website, or via a mobile app.

Pinkney's illustrations focus the eye on «Tricia Ann, who braves the segregated buses in 1950's Nashville to visit her Special Place — the integrated public library where «All are welcome».

The profusion of mobile devices means that half of public library users who visit library websites do so from their mobile device.

Over half (54 %) of Americans ages 16 and older have used a public library in some way in the past 12 months, whether by visiting in person or using a public library website:

At several points during our visit, the possibility was raised of new collaborations between authors and libraries — including models that could provide improved capabilities for the reading public, more revenue for authors, and lower costs for libraries.

Overall, 53 % of Americans age 16 or older have had some interaction with a public library in the past year — either through an in - person visit, using a library website, or via a mobile app.

These could include: public readings, library displays, reading challenges, school visits, newspaper and blog articles, chat show appearances, internet radio interviews, e-book give - ways, and banners on their website.

Rather than buy them, visit the research desk at your local public library.

If you have a card from your local public library with an Access Pennsylvania sticker on it, you can visit our libraries to get a card at no charge.

She has visited dozens and dozens of book clubs, public libraries, bookstores, and other venues to make that all - important face - to - face connection with readers.

I have visited book clubs (these are great, because I'm preaching to the converted), libraries (less productive for sales, but I still love public libraries), and bookstores.

«Earlier this year independent consumer research, conducted during four e-book lending pilots, revealed that 39 % of e-book borrowers from public libraries were much less likely to purchase print books in bookshops (and also make fewer visits to physical libraries).

ALA Immediate Past President Molly Raphael had the opportunity to visit China last fall to speak to the library community there about some of the struggles that many American libraries face as they try to provide ebooks and digital content to the public.

In 2014, 258 libraries across the nation earned three, four or five stars based on four per - capita measures: circulation, visits, program attendance and public Internet use on library computers.

It's one of the very few dedicated, public library - based writers» centers in the U.S.. We're timing our Select promotion with an invitation to visit the Writers» Center for writing or author programs or just to write.

Class Visits introduce children to Brooklyn Public Library, provide access to library cards and are specially designed to suit students» individual needs.