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This text is written for the library support staff who are the backbone of technology success. Each chapter provides a practical overview of how the technology advances library services. With abundant examples of how to apply the technology in real situations, it is an essential handbook for students entering into the library profession.
List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Editorial Advisory Board
Part I Fundamentals of Technology
1: Introduction to Library Technology
2: Planning for Technology
3: Computers
4: Software Applications
5: Library Systems
6: Open Source
Part II Library as Community
7: Cloud Computing
8: Network Infrastructure
9: Online Meetings, Programming, and Learning
10: Social Media
11: Mobile Technologies
Part III Education and the Future
12: STEM/STEAM and Makerspaces
13: Coding and Robotics
14: Digital Media Technologies
15: Cybersecurity and Appropriate Use
16: Future of Library Technologies
Glossary
Index
About the author
Marie Keen Shaw is library technology program coordinator at Three Rivers Community College, where she teaches an ALA-LSSC approved provider course, digital resources. She has broad experience in library digital information services as a former high school library director and curriculum instructional leader. Shaw serves in leadership roles on library services advisory boards both locally and statewide and has presented on support staff learning and technology at the annual conferences of the Connecticut Library Association Support Staff, the Connecticut and Rhode Island Library Associations, and the New England Library Association.
