Additionally, windows can be set to automatically track items such as moving vehicles, individuals, the books you get out of the library, and the items you pick up at 7-11 after a night out with the gang.
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It seems to serve a different purpose now, a couple of older gentlemen shuffling in and out of the library during the three hours we spend there, each staying quiet, seated alone at a small table, reading novels and history books from off the shelves.
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Many mornings, David Derickson, the captain of Lincoln's cavalry guard, had to pry the president out of the cottage library to get him to go to work.
The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250, 000 out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections.
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As the motorcade traveled to the library, drivers of cars traveling in the opposite direction stopped out of respect, while others parked on overpasses.
As ever, we're breaking out the Gadget Table to discuss the month's latest and greatest (and not-so-greatest), including the iPhone 5, Amazon's Kindle Fire and Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, before Brian heads out to the private (annex) library of comedian-turned-deranged-billionaire John Hodgman to discuss how technology is impacting the publishing industry and his upcoming books " That is All" and " The Complete World Knowledge Boxed Set".
Large quests play out in a place called Apocrypha, A daedric realm that takes the form of a twisted, spectral library where demons prevent the player from ever getting a good book out.
If it succeeds, most of Newton's scientific papers, including those already held in the library at Cambridge, will be reunited in the place where Newton carried out much of his groundbreaking research.
The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200, 000 historic master recordings-many long out-of-print or never released-to the Library's Recorded Sound Section, which has more than 3 million sound recordings in its collections.
You may think that having to read more in a supermarket than you would in a library or find out the genesis of the apples in your basket takes the joy out of food shopping, but for slow foodies it's a journey of discovery.
It dwarfs the washed out 8-by-10-inch inkjet prints of the FSA photographers' works provided by the Library of Congress.
To date, NetFlix still has the largest movie library overall although the size of the streaming-only content is not broken out.
The copy of Fisher's book which The Economist borrowed from the London Library was last lent out in 1978.
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But there are better options than turning the library into a hollowed-out hybrid of new and old.
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"Our education was football, his education was the Govan Library - he was never out of there, " he said.
Dean acknowledged that Bush might be a nice guy to hang out with but asked whether the library would consist primarily of coloring books.
In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.
Subscribers not interested in upgrading yet can find similar functionality tied to Spotify's library with the EchoFi tool, but this venture represents the service's debut of an "all-new intelligent recommendation engine" meant to dig the tracks you want out of its millions-deep library.
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This is a plan devised out of a profound ignorance of or willful disregard for not only the library's original concept and design, but also the folly of altering its meaning and mission and compromising its historical and architectural integrity.
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You can always find out what bills your Congressional officials author and support by checking the Library of Congress database or Open Congress.
The school had trialled a scheme where pupils could get iPods out of their library and listen to downloadable revision guides.
Residents on both sides of the border say they are worried that everyday chores like those carried out at the library could get more complicated if the traffic between the two towns is more rigorously controlled.
The library said hundreds and possibly thousands of books had to be dried out after water used to fight the flames leaked through five or six floors.
Pause in the library to check out the books the average prisoner read at a rate of 75 to 100 per year - though none of the books could have references to crime, violence or sex.
Digitisation of the records cost almost 4m euros and was carried out by the National Archives in partnership with Library and Archives Canada over the past five years.
In its book "Baseball Americana, " the Library of Congress calls the item the first dated baseball card, handed out to supporters and opposing teams in a gesture of bravado from the brash Brooklynites, who were dominant and won their league championships in 1861, 1864 and 1865.
They did a 10-month remodeling that included making a television room out of a screened porch while preserving original details like the pecky cypress ceilings in the living room and library, the handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and the Cuban tile floors in the dining room.
The overall interface of ThisLife is elegant, laying thousands of images out in a browse-friendly library that is organized left to right by time.
But what about the library director in Pueblo, Colo. who had the gall to hand out copies of Winning, the management guide by hard-charging former GE chief Jack Welch?
The Camp Room is decked out with two large flat-screen TVs, a library of videos and games (Legos, Connect Four, Sorry), three computers, water noodles, boogie boards and even microscopes.
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