The Barrie Public library strives to provide services, programs, and information to meet the needs of everyone in the city of Barrie. One of the most important tools this library uses in order to meet these needs is with the use of the library’s collection. The collection priorities at this particular library includes shaping the collection in a way that increases the rate of customer satisfaction and increases collection usage. At this current time, the library’s collection to include various kinds
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Do you smoke? No, I do not smoke. Are you able to tolerate smoking? Yes, I am tolerable when others are smoking. Have you ever felt that you should cut down on your alcohol consumption? No, I have never have felt that I need to cut down on my alcohol consumption. Have people annoyed you by criticizing your drinking? No, no one has ever criticized my drinking. Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking? No, I have never felt bad about my drinking. Have you ever had a drink first
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There are libraries and schools that have banned books for the way they are written or the language that is used for the book. For a elementary school some can understand that but for middle or high school they could be there for the history of them. The books that have been banned or challenged either have a personal reason behind the calligraphy that the author has or the educational purpose behind them. Authors have a hard time coming up with something to write about and then libraries and schools
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disorderly or “being drunk” and incapable. Laws punishing public intoxication (also known as "drunken or disorderly conduct”) vary widely among states. The different approaches states have taken to regulating public intoxication reflect the various cultural viewpoints on the issue. Some states' laws reflect the feeling that because public intoxication disturbs the peace and harms society, it should be punished as a crime. In these states, public intoxication is a misdemeanor, punishable by fines, jail
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resources choices are great; we have an online library that gives you access to anything. We have some really cool writing centers and it will be very helpful during my studies. We have a center to help out with essay, you can check for plagiarism or errors. I don’t have to go to the public library trying see if any computer is available. The awesome part about the library I can access to the library from home. UOP is easy to navigate to the library resources. I really like the online classroom environment
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Defining the National Library Building Project Specific The project must be specific. Being specific includes detailing out the project's structure, goals, benefits, milestones and costs. When building NLB there was a structure goal that it is to become an independent Library in Singapore. The benefits is that to provide public access to the Library resources and materials to provide references for local scholar and local students so that they can access and borrow books. The milestones of the
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Protection Act. “The law places restrictions on the use of federal funding to support libraries if the libraries do not implement both Internet safety policies and implement filters for certain objectionable material which can be accessed over the Internet” (Online Libraries & Microcomputers, 2001). In other words congress wants to control the people of the United States and what they look at online, in a public place. If congress passed this law, it would impact research for education, personal
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Library of Congress Relevance to School Libraries Donna Smith University of North Texas SLIS 5208 Library of Congress Relevance to School Libraries Introduction The Library of Congress (LOC) plays a momentous role in acquirement, distribution, and preservation of America’s historical and current documents like books, journals, political manuscripts (like the declaration of independence rough draft), government publications,
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As we progress on into module three, we look into exploring and understanding standing altruism. We are given the assignment to read the article Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's website to further explore our ideas on altruism. After reading the article we must individually present whether or not Andrew Carnegie was a egoist or altruist, or displayed both traits. In my opinion Andrew Carnegie displayed both traits of an egoist and altruist. Let
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1300 Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 My Library Experience Coming to Houston Community College was a huge blur for me. No one told me it was going to be a confusing mess. Also, no one told me the people working there were not friendly and were not helpful; I had to find that out by myself. I had no idea what college was going to be like. The only thing that I found helpful was going to The Leaning Hub class and learning about the library and how they work. Coming to The Learning Hub class
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