NAR Receives Award of Excellence for Virtual Library eBooks Collection.WASHINGTON -- The National Association of Realtors The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is made up of residential and commercial realtors who are brokers, salespeople, property managers, appraisers, and counselors, and others working in the real estate industry. (R) has won the Award of Excellence in the 2006 Associations Advance America Awards program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) is a non-profit professional organization for executive directors and executive vice presidents of professional societies both in the United States and abroad. . NAR NAR National Association of REALTORS NAR Nucleic Acids Research (journal) NAR National Association of Rocketry NAR Nationale Arbeidsraad (Dutch: National Labor Council; Brussels, Belgium) received the award for its Virtual Library eBooks Collection, featuring nearly 1,000 electronic and digital audio books. The eBooks Collection includes both original NAR content and titles by best-selling authors on subject matter ranging from popular real estate and business management to technology and personal development. NAR is among the first associations to provide this type of service to its membership. "The eBooks Collection offers NAR members virtual access to a comprehensive collection of digital and audio resource materials and continues to be an unmitigated un·mit·i·gat·ed adj. 1. Not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; unrelieved: unmitigated suffering. 2. success with members borrowing over 1,000 digital and audio books a month," said Thomas M. Stevens, 2006 NAR president from Vienna, Va., and senior vice president of NRT NRT Nicotine Replacement Therapy NRT Norm-Referenced Test NRT near real time NRT Non-Real-Time NRT National Response Team NRT Tokyo, Japan - Narita (Airport Code) NRT Net Registered Tonnage Inc. "Whether looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. quick reference, professional development, personal growth or leisure reading the eBooks Collection is a valuable tool that is easily accessible to our Realtor(R) members who typically spend a great deal of time in their communities and away from traditional office settings." NAR was one of only 22 organizations to receive an Award of Excellence in the third round of judging for the 2006 Associations Advance America Awards program, which recognizes associations that propel America forward with innovative projects in education, skills training, business and social innovation, knowledge creation, citizenship and community service. This award also puts NAR in the running for the Summit Award, ASAE's top recognition for association programs. NAR's eBooks are available in Adobe, Mobipocket and audio book format and can be downloaded for use on PCs or transferred to mobile devices including PDAs or Smartphones; a select number of titles may also be downloaded to an MP3 player A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. or burned to a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . NAR members can borrow up to three eBooks at no charge - Mobipocket and audio books can be borrowed for 14 days and Adobe eBooks for 21 days - after which they are deactivated and returned to the library collection. Popular titles from the eBooks collection include How to Become a Power Agent in Real Estate by Darryl Davis, 200 Marketing Ideas for Your Website by Henriette Martel-Lawson and Derek Martel-Lawson and Instant Immersion Spanish. New materials from NAR's Archives collection have also just been added to the collection, including Favorite Recipes from Friends Across the Nation (1952) featuring a collection of recipes contributed by Realtors(R) and Realtors(R)' wives, and Real Estate in American History (1958) by Pearl Janet Davies Janet Davies (1927–22 September 1986) born in Wakefield in the UK was a British actress. Davies's father, a solicitor, died in his early thirties, and as a result she was sent to boarding school. . For more information or to browse or check out materials from NAR's Virtual Library eBooks Collection, visit http://ebooks.realtor.org. The National Association of Realtors(R), "The Voice for Real Estate," is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.3 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. Information about NAR is available at www.REALTOR.org. This and other news releases are posted in the Web site's "News Media" section in the NAR Media Center. REALTOR(R) is a registered collective membership mark which may be used only by real estate professionals who are members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS(R) and subscribe to its strict Code of Ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
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