This is motivating some libraries to making acquiring e-books a higher priority.
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Mr White said under the proposals in the report, volunteers could be used to help professional staff in some libraries, which could also be run out of non-council buildings to make better use of council assets.
The proposals - by the Local Government Association and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - aim to keep open some 400 libraries amid funding cuts.
Granted some area libraries are better than others, but take an afternoon and stroll through.
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Day centres for the elderly and disabled, libraries and some children's services could also be affected, it said.
In addition to the funding of some 2, 800 public libraries across the United States and as far away as Fiji and New Zealand, he had endowed the Carnegie Institute of Technology in his adopted hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Research Institution in Washington, D.
Libraries have recognized for some time that they must adapt to the digital age, and many have taken steps in that direction.
Other budget-cutting measures include the the loss of 224 jobs, volunteers to run five libraries, and charges for some previously free services.
Other proposed cuts include reducing opening hours for customer service centres and libraries, the withdrawal of some public transport routes, delaying major infrastructure projects and reducing the funding available to support tourism.
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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So far, the National Archive has gone through 45%, or some 315 million pages, of all the papers housed in presidential libraries, with about 385 million remaining.
In some cases, the stations will be replaced by "police points" in local libraries or council offices.
Some publishers may believe that OverDrive, the Cleveland-based firm that supplies about 18, 000 libraries with e-books, has a deal with Amazon that is disadvantageous to publishers.
The combination of assets creates a leading media and entertainment company with the proven capability to provide some of the world's most popular entertainment, news and sports content, movies and film libraries to consumers anytime, anywhere.
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Some industry insiders estimate that more music is now consumed via streaming services like Spotify and Pandora than through personal mp3 libraries.
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Allocate some Universal Service funds for challenge grants to encourage better use of grants already used for Internet access in schools and libraries.
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