At its simplest, parenthood exposes even the affluent middle classes to public services, from hospitals to day-care centres or libraries.
Streets are public spaces, not unlike parks, community centers, or libraries.
Many communities already have pockets of limited free Wi-Fi, but until now those services are mostly either centered around public hotspots like parks, hospitals or libraries or offered by major tech firms like Google, which provides Wi-Fi throughout its headquarters city of Mountain View.
For now, a tiny 2% borrow e-books, yet they have the whole book publishing industry and librarians at the nations 120, 000 or so libraries at odds.
Critics said the firm lured consumers to a free seminar, then pressured them to spend money to access information readily available free online or in libraries.
In some cases, the stations will be replaced by "police points" in local libraries or council offices.
Five libraries will be replaced with "outreach libraries or community book collections", while Levenshulme Library will be moved into the another building.
I'm not tied to an ecosystem and I don't care about app libraries or anything else -- I just need the best email phone on the market.
However, the point is this: once you call certain functions or use certain libraries that iOS 4 gives you access to, you pretty much no longer will run on iOS 3.x devices.
The other "Big Six" publishers either refuse to allow libraries to lend out their e-books (at least their "front list" of current bestsellers), or they require libraries to periodically pay to re-license e-books.
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Yet instead of being replaced by public libraries or correspondence schools in the past (as some experts had predicted) or by TED video lectures more recently, college has become more ingrained in our culture than ever.
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Five libraries - at Burnage, Fallowfield, Miles Platting, New Moston and Northenden - will be replaced with "outreach libraries or community book collections", while Levenshulme Library will be moved into the same building as the new swimming pool.
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.
Other libraries affected by the cuts have reduced opening hours, cut staff or transferred the running of libraries to volunteers.
As a group, large publisher are wary of libraries, or at best ambivalent.
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Publishers have historically sold e-books to libraries (or to distributors such as Overdrive) at prices roughly equivalent to the retail hardcover price.
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But it does appear to be a trend in the U.S.: libraries either closing or navigating massive budget cuts.
The system also allows consumers to manage personal content, such as pictures, home videos and music libraries via USB or LG Cloud.
In our discussions, it has become clear that not everyone has a good understanding of how libraries operate, much less how libraries do (or could) operate in the ebook context.
You can back up or share your music and photo libraries as you head out the door.
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Mr Forbes added that community or voluntary groups could run smaller libraries.
The ALA keeps track of challenges filed and counted 327 reported attempts to restrict or remove books from schools and libraries in 2011.
With AirPlay, users can literally "give their home a soundtrack" by unleashing their iTunes music libraries whether from Mac or PC and streaming all their favorite iTunes songs, as well as music stored on their Apple mobile devices, to select Denon and Marantz components through their Wi-Fi enabled networks from iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices.
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And Apple has been aggressively adding to its content libraries to stay ahead of or keep up with competitors across a larger media landscape. iCloud goes beyond just media to include calendar, rolodex, and bookmarks (think the old Palm).
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" Ms. Foley, who helped develop Ralph Lauren Home during her 20 years at that company, says the libraries tend to eschew stereos or televisions "because there is already Wi-Fi everywhere if they need it, and the iPad goes where they go.
The measures include plans to run 41 libraries with the remaining staff, or volunteers, or a combination of both.
For teachers, Edmodo has document libraries on subjects such as Social Studies or Biology where teachers can share materials with teachers from other schools.
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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.
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