The rule protects video-rental outfits like Blockbuster and Netflix as well as public libraries.
Together, that is more than the roughly 15, 000 Wi-Fi-enabled public libraries in the country.
Perversely, computers are often more expensive for public libraries than for individuals, and harder to buy.
The top job at the new charity which will run Suffolk's 44 public libraries has been filled.
In 2009, public libraries accounted for just 1.3% of total book sales, down from 4.3% in 1989.
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While many brick and mortar bookstores have already met their demise, U.S. public libraries appear to be thriving.
Clearly, public libraries have more work to do with spreading the word that they have e-books to lend.
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The trust, announced in January, will take over a range of activities, including running public libraries and the historic Callendar House.
Those topics were the result of a survey targeted the public libraries on the most frequent books used at their premises.
Moreover, large publishers face a world that is changing in ways that will make public libraries ever more important to them.
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One is to celebrate the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) like the onset of the textbooks coupled with public libraries.
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This narrow of view of public libraries misses an important dynamic, however.
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Prior to the digital age, the BLS could have claimed that newspaper costs were held down by public libraries that provided free access.
According to the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg, the public facilities most often used by migrants in South Africa are public libraries.
Without public libraries to promote the culture of reading and build communities of interconnected readers, publishers would face a diminished market for their titles.
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Bucking the trend, children's fiction remained the one area where lending figures rose, with children's books representing 37.4% of all books borrowed from public libraries.
The battlegrounds are public libraries, more than 400 of which are under threat - around one in 10 libraries in the UK, according to campaigners.
Over the past several years, the vast majority of public libraries are helping their communities bridge the digital divide by providing free broadband Wi-Fi access.
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It added that refuse and recycling collections had been cancelled, while all 17 of the county's public libraries were closed, and the mobile library was not running.
So Norvig's group designs tools to scan the contents of public libraries, crafts translators that convert foreign-language documents and creates ways to store and index e-mails cheaply.
The Department of Labor estimates that there are over 3, 500 active Job Clubs hosted by congregations, public libraries, community colleges, nonprofit organizations and One Stop Career Centers.
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Last week, Penguin announced a pilot program to allow public libraries in New York City and Brooklyn to lend out its e-books via 3M's Cloud Drive service.
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The community role of public libraries is evolving, and libraries are seeking ways to better meet the needs of people who are especially in need of their services.
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Once, not so very long ago, private individuals could not get access to photocopy machines except at certain government offices, such as the Post Office of Public Libraries.
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It pledged to slash more than 190 non-elected public bodies, including the Public Lending Right - which collects payments for authors whose books are loaned by public libraries.
What's going to vanish from public libraries next, the books?
One of the vital connections between public libraries and the big publishers has been lost during the e-book revolution, and one new British company wants to get it back.
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He is currently advising on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, on a National Books On Prescription Scheme, to be rolled out across UK public libraries this year.
If e-books encourage people to read more, that's good for public libraries -- which have a core mission to foster literacy and community engagement with information, culture and civic life.
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As well as TransMilenio, he built more than 200km of cycle paths, a network of public libraries and got private schools to run new public schools in the poorer south of the city.
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