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Cahill, Kay – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the work undertaken by Vancouver Public Library (VPL) in an effort to convert its website into a true virtual branch, both through the functionality of the website itself and by extending its web presence on to external social networking sites. Design/methodology/approach: VPL worked with its…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Public Libraries, Library Services, Electronic Libraries
Lietzau, Zeth – Online Submission, 2009
The use of interactive web technologies on public library web sites in the United States has been a topic of much discussion in recent years, and a shift in certain types of user services is underway. Terms like "Web 2.0" and even "Library 2.0" have become common in library literature and at conferences as those on the early…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Technology Uses in Education, Internet, Web Sites
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Mackenzie, Christine – Australian Library Journal, 2008
The paper describes the introduction of Web 2.0 techniques and tools at the Yarra Plenty public library in Victoria, beginning with library staff. The author argues that as libraries move from Web 1.0 type delivery systems to the social networking world of Library 2.0 librarians need to deploy and make accessible these radically different systems,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Library Personnel, Public Libraries, Library Services
Bertot, John Carlo; McClure, Charles R. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Focuses on a Web-based version of a national survey for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) of public library involvement with the Internet. Describes the procedures used to develop the Web-based questionnaire, identifies issues concerning Web-based research, and presents recommendations for the future…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection
Dennison, Russell F. – 2000
This paper presents an annotated bibliography of 69 articles published in the 1990s that examine the impact of technology on reference service in public, school, and academic libraries. The paper is organized in the following seven parts, each dealing with a different type of application of technology: (1) "General Change Caused by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Libraries
Nixon, Carol, Comp.; Burmood, Jennifer, Comp. – 2000
Topics of the Proceedings of the 15th Annual Computers in Libraries Conference (March 15-17, 2000) include: Linux and open source software in an academic library; a Master Trainer Program; what educators need to know about multimedia and copyright; how super searchers find business information online; managing print costs; new technologies in wide…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs
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Wolfe, Gary D., Ed. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
This overview of information technology in Pennsylvania discusses Internet access in public libraries; technology infrastructure; strategic partnerships; future possibilities; distance learning for small, rural, and/or poor school districts; an electronic communication network; a computer bulletin board for teachers; and a database for school,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks