The scenarios are instructive because they lay out forces changing the operating environment not only for libraries but pretty much every significant organization or company going forward.
"It is a stark fact that 90% of our library visitors use only half of our libraries, " he said.
"The AirPlay Audio System not only lets you hear your music libraries everywhere and anywhere in your home, it also delivers unsurpassed AR quality sound, " said Geise.
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It would just require a website with a list of new titles and links accessible only to real people working in real libraries.
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As an international foundation which supports library consortia in transitional and developing countries to negotiate and advocate the wide availability of electronic information, eIFL.net will not only identify issues in copyright relevant to libraries in developing countries but also develop a scalable and transferable awareness raising and training programme of activities about the challenges of copyright and related issues in the digital age.
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Only 1% of the holdings in national libraries across the 27 EU members states have been digitised - and complex copyright laws are partly blamed.
If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features.
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This means a substantial number of seniors access the Internet only from shared or public computers (such as at libraries, Internet cafes or senior centers), or by bringing a laptop to a location with open Wi-Fi.
"Mac OSX is attractive to developers because they can access not only the core programming languages but also the large selection of Unix libraries that are available, " he said.
Universities, for example, have not only classroom and administrative buildings to pay for but also the dormitories and expansive libraries for students.
Prison library management at regional level exists only in very few places, leaving the majority of prison staff running institutional libraries with no option but to act on their own.
HarperCollins sells e-books to libraries at prices comparable to those it charges consumers, but each e-book can only be lent out 26 times until the library has to buy another copy.
These books are not only good reading to get to know the subjects but are also being used as a tool in schools and libraries.
For instance, product-service systems like car sharing and tool libraries--in which a product we used to buy and take home becomes a service we use only as needed--offer us access to the products we want at a fraction of the ecological impact.
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