Blogging software has gained popularity as a vehicle to promote library resources, services and events, and as a distribution tool for current awareness services. The paper outlines the process that ...was undertaken to redevelop a Word based current awareness newsletter to two blog-based news services. Although the focus is on a health information news service, the key tasks undertaken: environment and user analysis, development of blog design and news content selection guidelines, news service accreditation, marketing initiatives, and site evaluation and improvement, can be adapted to guide the best practice development and management of any blog-based current awareness news service.
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A technology plan provides a blueprint against which to measure new technologies and applications, assess future needs, and allocate resources to balance technology with the needs of users and staff. ...This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for librarians preparing a technology plan. The book is divided into five planning steps, each of which is the topic of a separate chapter: (1) "Preparing to Plan"; (2) "Identifying Technology Needs"; (3) "Discovering Your Options"; (4) "Selecting an Infrastructure and Identifying Products and Services"; and (5) "Developing and Managing the Implementation Process." Each chapter includes key concepts, identified as milestones at the beginning of the chapter, that will help planners develop effective technology plans. To further simplify the planning process, each of the five steps is divided into a group of tasks necessary to accomplish the step. Each tasks begins with a preview listing the objective of the task, the people involved, the data required to complete the task, workforms that are provided at the end of the book to help organize information, and the approximate time required to complete the task. In addition, nine "Tech Notes" on basic technical information are included at the end of the book. Contains an index. (Author/AEF)
Originally begun as a blog compiled of pointers to noteworthy sites or developments, Dempsey eventually used it to write of things of interest to himself and, he hoped, to others. This book contains ...what are considered his most significant posts from the past decade, reflecting Dempsey's thinking or showing seeds of future ideas.
Blogging software has gained popularity as a vehicle to promote library resources, services and events, and as a distribution tool for current awareness services. The paper outlines the process that ...was undertaken to redevelop a Word based current awareness newsletter to two blog-based news services. Although the focus is on a health information news service, the key tasks undertaken: environment and user analysis, development of blog design and news content selection guidelines, news service accreditation, marketing initiatives, and site evaluation and improvement, can be adapted to guide the best practice development and management of any blog-based current awareness news service.
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This book examines real-life projects involving Internet access, use, and financing in libraries. It focuses on how becoming an Internet provider has improved many libraries' public visibility, level ...of service, and communication with other educational or community institutions. Chapters include: (1) "Setting Up an Internet Users Group in the Public Library" (Carolyn Caywood); (2) "Wendy's Connects Billings, Montana" (Bill Cochran); (3) "Internet and the Corporate Library: Creating New Opportunity at the Apple Library" (Monica Ertel); (4) "A Small Special Library in the University Makes Itself Bigger with the Internet" (Mary C. Pettengill); (5) "Mushing the Net in Alaska" (Susan Elliot & Steve Smith); (6) "The Texas State Electronic Library: Giving Texans 'All They Need to Know' Through a Single Source" (Mike Clark & M. Lisa deGruyter); (7) "Maryland's Sailor Project: A Library Gateway for Statewide Access to the Internet" (Rivkah K. Sass); (8) "Metro Net Library Consortium: A Model of Public Libraries as Internet Providers in Michigan" (Gerald M. Furi and others); (9) "Internet Use by Rural Public Libraries: An Examination of Two Programs in the Hudson Valley of New York State" (Denise A. Garofalo); (10) "The Internet in Depository Libraries: Better Service, Higher Stress" (Doreen L. Hansen); (11) "Student Employees Enhance Internet Expertise for a Liberal Arts College Library" (Terry Metz); (12) "Implementing the Internet at Syntex: Collaboration between the Library and Information Systems" (Pamela Jajko and others); (13) "Finding a Place in an Advanced Networking Environment: The Library of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business" (Robert E. Mayer & Suzanne Sweeney); (14) "Pikes Peak Library District's MAGGNet" (David R. Clark); (15) "Wish Lists Come True at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Research Library" (Eugenie Prime and others); (16) "UtahLINK: A Model for Statewide Educational Use of the Internet" (Sharyl G. Smith); (17) "Literacy on the Internet: The National Institute for Literacy and State Literacy Resource Centers World Wide Web Information Network" (Thomas Eland); and (18) "A Regional Free-Net and Internet Access" (Judy Hallman). A list of Internet addresses mentioned in the text and a glossary are appended. (Contains 109 references.) (BEW)
St Mary's Waverley School for Girls in Johannesburg has taken the plunge into the digital and technological world of the 21st century. The librarian was consulted on all aspects of updating and ...modernising the Resource Centre to enhance the learning and teaching experience. The entire school is wi-fi connected and the edges of library and school as well as school and home have been blurred. Interactive and collaborative study is the norm. The print collection is enhanced by the eLibrary, website support, Facebook page, online book club, digital magazines and newspapers, electronic displays, notices and learning support on a large TV screen. Learners are trained in the various IT skills by means of formal lessons as well as casual Podcamps in the iCentre.
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