Using Technology in the Library Workplace

An Introduction for Support Staff

Marie Keen Shaw (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4535-7 (ISBN)

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Libraries today, regardless of their type or location, are reliant on technology. Almost every process or procedure in the library is dependent upon skilled use of computers, hardware, and software. Integrated library and discovery systems enable patrons to manage activities such as creating lists and holds, to perform self-checkout, and to search multiple library catalogs and databases simultaneously.

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 as well as for those who seek to become more confident and competent with these technologies and more:

Computer hardware and peripherals
Integrated Library and Discovery systems
Software applications
Open Source
Cloud Computing
Mobile applications
Networking Infrastructure
Online Meetings
Social Media
Mobile Technologies
Digital media equipment
STEM/STEAM Makerspaces
Coding and Robotics
Cybersecurity

The Library Support Staff series is aimed for staff that work in libraries and want to enhance their skills, college professors who teach library support staff instruction, and students who seek new learning in the library profession. Each book in the series addresses a specific topic in an academic curriculum for library support staff. Content of each book in the series is aligned with American Library Association competencies for accredited programs and learning for library support staff (ALA-LSSC). The text is written in clear language with practical examples of how performance can contribute to exemplary library service.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Library Support Staff Handbooks
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	179 x 256 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-5381-4535-9 / 1538145359
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-4535-7 / 9781538145357
Zustand	Neuware