Product Description: Today’s libraries are taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies such as flat panel displays using touch, sound, and hands-free motions to design amazing exhibits using everything from simple computer hardware to advanced technologies such as the Microsoft Kinect...read more

A guide to technology used in libraries and information centers covers such topics as security, buying decisions, RSS, blogs, open source, and podcasting.

Product Description: Free Technology for Libraries will help you discover how you can implement top-notch technology solutions within your organization to create intranets and knowledge bases, conduct webinars and conference calls, manage electronic resources, track library statistics, market your library, and much more, all at no cost...read more

Libraries are creating dynamic knowledge bases to capture both tacit and explicit knowledge and subject expertise for use within and beyond their organizations. Knowledge Management for Libraries guides the reader through the process of planning, developing, and launching their own library knowledge base.

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Product Description: This volume is the first to examine the social, cultural, and political implications of the shift from the traditional forms and functions of print-based libraries to the delivery of online information in educational contexts. Libr@ries are conceptualized as physical places, virtual spaces, communities of literate practice, and discourses of information work...read more

Here’s a one-stop snapshot of emerging technologies every librarian should know about and examples that illustrate how the technologies are being used in libraries today! The e-book includes videos of interviews with librarians that are using them. The videos are available on a web site for people who purchase the print book. The first four chapters—Audio & Video, Self- and Micro-Publishing, Mobile Technology, and Crowdfunding—all look at older technologies reinvented and reimagined through significant advances in quality, scale, or hardware. Many libraries were already using these technologies in some way, and are now able to change and adapt those uses to meet current needs and take advantage of the latest improvements. The two next chapters look at new technologies: wearable technologies and the Internet of Things (simple but powerful computers that can be embedded into everyday objects and connected to controllers or data aggregation tools). The last two chapters—Privacy & Security and Keeping Up With Technology—are all-purpose topics that will continue to be affected by new developments in technology. Each of these chapters offers a brief overview of background information and current events, followed by a list of advantages and challenges to using these technologies in a library setting. The authors highlight the most useful or most well-known tools and devices, then specify how these technologies might be used in a library setting. Finally, they look at a variety of current examples from libraries in the United States and around the globe.

Product Description: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a profound impact on all spheres of activity in libraries, including how libraries build their collection, technical activities, outreach activities, budgetary strategies, manpower development, infrastructural requirement, and library services...read more

Product Description: Cloud computing can be confusing - the number and types of services that are available through “the cloud” are growing by the day. Making the Most of the Cloud: How to Choose and Implement the Best Services for Your Library takes you through some of the more popular cloud services in libraries and breaks down what you need to know to pick the best one for your library...read more

Product Description: Times have changed and library institutions struggle to maintain relevancy in the Information Age. With the inescapable presence of harnessing technologies for information management and access, the role of the library has increased in importance within academic institutions and public communities...read more

Product Description: Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections to services, placing the reader at the center of library activities...read more

Product Description: Information Technology (IT) plays a vital role in today's global knowledge economy. It has proved to be a great boon for the modern society. The impact of IT is enormous and global in its magnitude, direction, pervasiveness, and usefulness...read more

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Product Description: Following the pattern of the first volume, the second volume of Libraries in the early 21st century: An international perspective extends the range of countries covered. Each chapter covers a different country and describes the modern history, development of libraries and library technology...read more

Product Description: The advent of computers in libraries made library automation a hot topic in the 1980s and 1990s, but this focus has dropped off over time, leaving much library automation research outdated.Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2...read more

Product Description: This book offers a holistic introduction to the tools available and how to utilize them effectively. The authors address the topic in an understandable and logical sequence. I plan to suggest that my library purchase it. - R. Todd Vandenbark, Web Services Librarian at the Spencer S...read more

Why another book about the Internet? The answer is simple: while there are a number of excellent books on various aspects of networking, the Internet, HTML, Web design, Web programming, XML, and Web searching, there is not a single survey text that explores each of these topics holistically in the context of the knowledge and skill needs of those preparing for careers in any of the many information technology (IT) intensive fields such as library and information science (LIS), business and management information systems (MIS), and decision science (DIS), to name but a few. In so doing, this foundational text offers its readers both a comprehensive overview of basic counseling and tested solutions to a variety of technical situations. The perfect introduction for students lacking technological expertise who are called upon to demonstrate a working knowledge of basic concepts and applications.Why another book about the Internet? The answer is simple: while a growing number of excellent books cover the various aspects of networking, the Internet, HTML, Web design, Web programming, XML, and Web searching, there is not a single survey text that explores each of these topics holistically in the context of the knowledge and skill needs of those preparing for careers in any of the many information technology (IT) intensive fields such as library and information science (LIS), business and management information systems (MIS), and decision science (DIS), to name but a few. In so doing, this foundational text offers its readers both a comprehensive overview of basic counseling and tested solutions to a variety of technical situations.Part 1 focuses on the technologies of the Internet, specifically networks, TCPIP, higher level Internet protocols, and security issues for Internet-connected PCs. Part 2 focuses on the many forms of Internet content and how it is created: documentary and multimedia formats; Web graphics; Web publishing in HTML; principles of good Web design; controlling presentation with styles; Web scripting and dynamic content; and the possibility of the semantic Web with XML. Part 3 is devoted to the topic of Internet information retrieval and includes a brief overview of the principles of IR; Internet searching past and present; a detailed examination of search engine functions and limitations; peer-to-peer approaches; image and multimedia IR; and enhancing intellectual access by the application and use of metadata.The perfect introduction for students lacking technological expertise who are called upon to demonstrate a working knowledge of basic concepts and applications.

Product Description: Information Technology (IT), as a discipline, has witnessed fundamental changes, allowing information seekers around the globe to have access to information which was inaccessible two decades ago. Progress in IT continues at a superexponential growth rate...read more

Product Description: With the rapid growth in computer and communication technology, as well as the ease in disseminating information, library bibliographic control has become difficult, forcing contemporary libraries to make a paradigm shift from the age old traditional library operation to automation with the latest state-of-the-art operations...read more