An Essex town is to get a new multi-million pound public library and learning centre.
However, the council will retain control of community learning and development, library support for schools and bereavement services.
Creating a national online library of learning resources, with a central bank of tools, software and apps available to everyone.
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Without the library Headington is a cultural and learning desert.
The local library then became his seat of learning, along with the shops, streets and bars of the Hill district, and the workplaces whose little incidents punctuated the boredom of a series of dead-end jobs.
The plans include show exhibition and performance spaces, learning and creative play areas, a "fantasy library", cafe and shop.
The proposal would see the relocation of Radcliffe Library to Radcliffe Civic Suite, Prestwich Library to the Longfield Suite, Unsworth Library to the nearby Sunnybank Community Centre, while part of Whitefield Library would be reassigned to Adult Care Learning Disability Day Services.
Schools and colleges will gain access to information that even the greatest library could not contain, and a means to enhance online learning for people of every age.
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TheTechnology Expertise, Access and Learning for all Texans (TEAL) project is working through 38 local library systems across Texas to install 2, 100 new workstations and upgrade 580 existing machines in more than 150 existing and new computer centers.
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On the other are librarians, library users and authors, who believe local libraries are vital centres of literature and learning.
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They could get a job learning from a plumber or a machinist, or apprenticing to a furniture maker or just sitting in the library with a big stack of books and a notepad.
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Distance learning courses have long been trying to replicate the social buzz of the post-lecture coffee shop or library chatter, and increasingly their portals resemble elements of our Facebooks, Flickrs, MySpaces and blogs.
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"The Language Learning Center offers hundreds of hours of video content in over 50 languages to students and faculty, with a growing library of video assets, " said Bob Majors, Senior Computing Specialist, University of Washington.
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