Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library

Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library
Author: Nick D. Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This book explains how librarians can capitalize on the growing interest and need of patrons for help with technology by expanding their library's tech services to build community engagement and support. Keeping up with technology is more critical and difficult than ever. This challenge exists not only for library staff but for their patrons as well. Today's librarians are often barraged with increasingly complex questions from their patrons about technology—from loading eBooks onto their readers to helping resurrect dead laptops. Why not capitalize on this opportunity and transform your library into a first-stop, go-to resource for your community's tech needs? Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library: Improving Services to Meet User Needs demonstrates a variety of ways to expand library services to better serve your community, including how to establish tech bars and tech centers, provide tech training and one-on-one tech help, host drop-in demos, and create a coding "dojo." The book covers after-school programs, makerspaces, and embedded librarianship as well. The authors draw on their personal experience to offer a practical blueprint for launching your tech initiative, starting with the preliminary steps of evaluating community needs and getting administrative and public buy-in to obtaining funding, training non-tech staff, setting up and launching your program, and evaluating the services you've established. The book ends with a look to the future that supplies provocative and exciting ideas of how libraries with innovative, tech-focused leadership can push the edge even further. This book serves a wide audience—all public librarians as well as library administrators, those who work in IT departments as well as adult or youth services, and reference librarians who are interested in expanding into this important and exciting area.

Library Information Systems

Library Information Systems
Author: Joseph R. Matthews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440851956

Information systems are central to libraries, and managing information systems is critical to serving library communities. Both a textbook for LIS courses and a handbook for practitioners, this volume thoroughly addresses modern libraries' challenges of integrating information technology. Written by Joseph R. Matthews and Carson Block, both experts on library information systems, this book describes the evolution of library information systems, their enabling technologies, and today's dynamic IT marketplace. It explains specific technologies and related topics, including standards and standards organizations, telecommunications and networks, integrated library systems, electronic resource management systems, repositories, authentication and link verification, electronic resources, and nextgen library systems. Readers will also learn the latest about information systems management, covering technology planning, basic technology axioms, the impact of technology on library services, system selection and implementation, system usability, and general technology management. The final section considers current trends and future developments in LIS, including those related to mobile devices and apps as well as the growth of digital libraries.

Your Technology Outreach Adventure

Your Technology Outreach Adventure
Author: Erin Berman
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 083891778X

From straightforward internet access to elaborate makerspaces, libraries have taken center stage when it comes to providing free access to technology to those who visit their physical spaces. But how about people who don’t walk into a library? How do we ensure those members of the community are also being reached by technology programming? It’s time to launch an adventure! Berman, named an ALA Emerging Leader and Library Journal Mover & Shaker, provides readers with a comprehensive plan for creating and implementing successful technology-based outreach. She also teaches readers design thinking skills that can enable library staff to become creative problem solvers. Sharing the methods and experiences of her team at San José Public Library, Berman’s guide presents numerous real-world case studies, including videomaking in a skate park, e-readers for seniors, popup mobile makerspaces, and simple circuits in middle school, that will inspire readers to move technology beyond the walls of the library;offers dozens of design thinking exercises, such as rapid prototyping, empathy mapping, and logic models, as part of a start-to-finish model for developing a new program concept;discusses the origins of and reasons behind the digital divide, then shares outreach fundamentals and best practices that will help ensure success; andprovides information about ways to connect with the community, perform evaluation, offer STEM programming, and additional resources. This guide will empower libraries to design and prototype technology-based outreach ideas safely, quickly, and with confidence, leading to better service for all members of the community.

Best Technologies for Public Libraries

Best Technologies for Public Libraries
Author: Christopher DeCristofaro
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-01-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440869286

"This book examines four technologies; 3D printing, drones, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and their place in the public library"--

Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library

Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library
Author: Nick D. Taylor
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440844968

Raising the bar for tech services in libraries means going above and beyond basic technology offerings. Basic offerings are what you're likely to find in nearly 90 percent of libraries: computer classes, public computers, e-books, and Wi-Fi. To further improve public perception of libraries and to advocate for even more meaningful usage of these community institutions, the purpose of this book is to encourage libraries to focus on ways to improve their existing tech services or even to expand their offerings.-- page [1].

Raise the Bar

Raise the Bar
Author: Jon Taffer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0544148304

Bar and restaurant expert and host of Bar Rescue Jon Taffer offers a no-nonsense strategy for making your business successful by creating the right emotional reactions in your customers.

Cape Cod Libraries

Cape Cod Libraries
Author: Gerree Hogan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439677735

Cape Cod is home to thirty four libraries, each with its own wonderful history. One library was named for an extraordinarily feisty woman. Two others burned down during blizzards. A French Marquis funded a Lower Cape library, and one in Mid-Cape had Kurt Vonnegut as a board member. One on the Outer Cape holds an annual Turnip Festival, and three others don't have computers. A stained-glass Town Seal is in an Upper Cape library's dome, while another has a schooner inside. A brand of canned coffee even paid for one library's construction. Join local author Gerree Hogan as she reveals stories of intrigue, politics, betrayal, heroes, and whimsy that make these libraries so unique.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1541673905

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, 2020

Science at the Bar

Science at the Bar
Author: Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997-09-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674793033

Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. The realm of the law is sometimes at a loss—constrained by its own assumptions and practices, Jasanoff suggests. This book exposes American law’s long-standing involvement in constructing, propagating, and perpetuating myths about science and technology.

Library Association Record

Library Association Record
Author: Library Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1116
Release: 1982
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.