Library Services Platforms

Library Services Platforms
Author: American Library American Library Association
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Database searching
ISBN: 9780838959619

The genre of library services platforms helps libraries manage their collection materials and automate many aspects of their operations by addressing a wider range of resources and taking advantage of current technology architectures compared to the integrated library systems that have previously dominated. This issue of Library Technology Reports explores this new category of library software, including its functional and technical characteristics. It highlights the differences with integrated library systems, which remain viable for many libraries and continue to see development along their own trajectory. This report provides an up-to-date assessment of these products, including those that have well-established track records as well as those that remain under development. The relationship between library services platforms and discovery services is addressed. The report does not provide detailed listings of features of each product, but gives a general overview of the high-level organization of functionality, the adoption patterns relative to size, types, and numbers of libraries that have implemented them, and how these libraries perceive their performance. This seminal category of library technology products has gained momentum in recent years and is positioned to reshape how libraries acquire, manage, and provide access to their

CMBLS

CMBLS
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1989
Genre: Computer software
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Technology Made Simple

Technology Made Simple
Author: Kimberly Bolan
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838909205

Provides information on implementing technology services in a small or medium-sized library.

Library Information Systems

Library Information Systems
Author: Thomas R. Kochtanek
Publisher: Libraries Unltd Incorporated
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781591580188

The text gives broad coverage of all the major issues confronting library directors in today's fast-moving technology marketplace, and will be well placed on the shelves of the many libraries faced with the complexities that information technology developments bring to the library. Giving a useful overview of library systems-from their history to current trends in the technology and marketplace that serve libraries-this book includes coverage of telecommunications, standards, planning, managing technology in libraries, system selection, and more. Specifically designed for core units in library automation and information systems, this text gives students a comprehensive overview of one of the most critical areas of library operations, and enables them to take the lead in managing the complexities that information technology brings to the library.

Children of the Elementi

Children of the Elementi
Author: Ceri Clark
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781492947332

From the ashes of an ancient empire, five must save the future. Jake: Last in line to the Elementi High King throne, sent through time and space to be brought up in an alien world, he has no knowledge of his past. Mirim: As the caretaker of the mysterious Citadel which hosts the dying crystal mind of the Matrix, her air power is the only link to the old world. Kiera: A Romani foundling with growing powers over nature, she is searching for a better life away from her criminal past. They must find the other two heirs and reunite all their elemental powers over earth, air, fire, and water together with the Matrix to defeat the Empire that conquered their parents. With a fire demon on his trail, can Jake bring together the last of the Elementi in time?