'institutions'

Ex: Few mutual savings banks exist in the modern economy due to changes in the banking industry that have blurred the lines among depository institutions.

Ex: Many of the visionary reports now being published on the future information society contain unsupportable claims of potential societal benefit.

biblioteca ambulante — mobile library, bookmobile (EEUU)

biblioteca circulante — [de préstamo] lending library; [ambulante] circulating library

Ex: A library is no longer constrained to choose either a classified or a dictionary catalogue.

Ex: The building includes seminar rooms, lecture theatres and a well-equipped library which houses audio-visual rooms, study carrels, display and reading rooms and stacks.

Ex: Defoe's eighteenth century style full of tedious moralizing and philosophical musings, and not exactly well-stocked with dramatic excitements to relieve the steady pace, seemed not at all to put him off.

Ex: The special libraries of the national research institutions are the most well endowed of the libraries.

Ex: The euphoric years of affluence and expansion in the decades immediately following the midpoint of the century have given way to traumatic years of austerity and contraction.

Ex: In order to do that, our schools and professional institutions must allow our students, the faculty and the information professionals to pursue the answers we all will need sooner than we think.

Ex: In recent years, digital imaging in many institutions evolved from being a highly sophisticated art into something resembling a production line.

Ex: Many new learning resource centres have facilitated a ' step change' in learning support provision within their institutions = Muchos centros de recursos para el aprendizaje nuevos han facilitado un ' cambio cualitativo' en la ayuda para el aprendizaje dentro de sus instituciones.

Ex: We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.

Ex: For while the institutions publish through the Publications Office their output is always limited by an annual cost ceiling set by the budget.

Ex: As institutions of higher education progress from one stage to another, the role of the CIO evolves from charismatic to integrating.

Ex: The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

Ex: His talks sparkle with Southern humor and a distinct voice known to mention rednecks, the evil of institutions, and racial reconciliation.

Ex: The 1st phase of a cultural centre, with library, art gallery, swimming pool, cafe and day centre for the elderly, was opened in Sept 87.

Ex: The DOBIS/LIBIS allows both the library and the computer center to function efficiently and at a lower cost by sharing one system.

Ex: The data derived from a study of randomly selected natural history and science museums and science centres indicated that the libraries in those institutions were not adequately funded.

Ex: This paper reports the results of a survey of 538 male inmates of young offender institutions.

Ex: A national library is the most obvious institution to act as the nerve centre of an interloan system.

Ex: From a position of relative strength in the 1950s, when Central Europe was the hotbed of European sport, the region has suffered a relative decline compared to the powerhouses of Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.

no puedo cerrar esta maleta — I can't close o shut this suitcase

cierra los ojos — close o shut your eyes

cerró el libro de golpe — she banged o slammed the book shut

• cerré la puerta con llave — I locked the door

• cierra el pico — * shut your trap **

• cerrar el puño — to clench one's fist

• cerrar el paso a algn — to block sb's way

trató de entrar, pero le cerraron el paso — he tried to get in, but they blocked o barred his way

cerrar el sistema — (Inform) to shut down the system

los manifestantes que cerraban la marcha — the demonstrators bringing up the rear o at the rear

la puerta cierra mal — the door won't close o shut properly

cierra, que se va a escapar el gato — close o shut the door or the cat will get out

¿a qué hora cierran las tiendas el sábado? — what time do the shops close o shut on Saturday?

cerrar con o contra algn — to grapple with sb

han cerrado el plazo de inscripción — enrollment has closed o finished

cierra, que hace frío — close o shut the door (o window etc), it's cold

la ventana no cierra bien — the window doesn't close o shut properly

se cerró en su actitud — he dug his heels in

cerrarse a algo: sería cerrarse a la evidencia it would be turning our back on the evidence; se cierran a todo cambio — they're not open to change

han cerrado el plazo de inscripción — enrollment has closed o finished

cierra, que hace frío — close o shut the door (o window etc), it's cold

la ventana no cierra bien — the window doesn't close o shut properly

se cerró en su actitud — he dug his heels in

cerrarse a algo: sería cerrarse a la evidencia it would be turning our back on the evidence; se cierran a todo cambio — they're not open to change

Ex: The date due calculated by the circulation programs is always checked against the list of dates the library is closed to ensure that a document is not due when it cannot be returned.