Award-winning author Jeanette Winterson has called for the UK's library network to be expanded.

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In addition to a regional virtual library network to which universities will be linked, the project will set up a cyber institute giving professors on-line access to training courses.

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The city council plans to retain a "core network" of eight facilities, including the city centre "super library".

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Below this are links to your Library, the Store and Kobo's Reading Life social network.

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Through "Video on Demand powered by Qriocity" customers can instantly rent from a growing library of thousands of Hollywood blockbuster movies across Sony's 2010 models of network-enabled BRAVIA TV, Blu-ray Disc player and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater system.

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Crackle, Inc. is a multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network that distributes digital content including original short form series and full-length traditional programming from Sony Pictures' vast library of television series and feature films.

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