"We are the Harry Potter generation," says Andrea Hill, 19. "we started in elementary school, reading about a boy our age who was going through the same things we were going through."
Thornton explained the NYPL automatically purchases licenses for a given title if there are more than five patrons waiting for it - creating a systematic approach to a user-curated collection.
Libraries are expanding services that let patrons virtually 'check out' an e-book through the Internet, with e-book files that automatically lock down after the end of the loan period.
There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span—that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.
My personal favorite is a reading chair in the corner of my office, I like the feeling of being in a big library surrounded by books, and everyone knows that you need to be quiet in the library!
"Getting kids to turn off their phones, iPods, and computers in order to concentrate on homework and reading, he said," I think that's a fight worth having.
Reading books, in a non-ideal school, is often set for homework-a certain number of pages must be read and marked off on a book mark by the following day.
The UML model is more refined and formal, but it remains synthetic and readable because it is intended primarily as a communication device between the team members.