The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA guide - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783300337 ISBN 13 : 9781783300334

Editeur : Facet Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

In this much needed book, Kenneth J Varnum and his hand-picked team of contributors look ahead over the most important technologies likely to impact library services over the next five years. Their ideas will stimulate strategic thinking and help library staff make informed decisions about meeting user expectations and delivering services. Highly informative for any library, the diverse chapters include:

• Impetus to innovate: convergence and library trends
• Hands-free augmented reality: impacting the library future
• Libraries and archives augmenting the world
• The future of cloud-based library systems
• Library discovery
• Web services as the new websites for many libraries
• Text mining
• Bigger, better, together: building the digital library of the future
• Open hardware in libraries.

Readership: This leading-edge collection offers an expert-level view of library technology that’s just around the corner and is essential reading for systems librarians, students and all librarians who are looking to the technology future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth J. Varnum is the Web Systems Manager at the University of Michigan Library, where he manages the library web site and development of new features and functionality. An active member of the library technology world for 18 years, Ken's research and professional interests range from Drupal and site redesign to user-generated content.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Facet Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783300337
• ISBN 13: 9781783300334
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Varnum Kenneth J
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible