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Perez, Lisa – Teacher Librarian, 2009
In this article, the author discusses using Second Life (SL) in school librarianship. SL is a multi-user virtual environment in which persons create avatars to allow them to move and interact with other avatars. They can build and manipulate objects. To move, they can walk, run, fly, or teleport. There are many areas within SL to allow people to…
Descriptors: Library Networks, Library Services, School Libraries, Library Science
Ramaswami, Rama – Campus Technology, 2010
Back in the 1990s, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may not have been user-friendly, but what they tried to do was totally reasonable: replace stand-alone systems in various departments--such as finance, logistics, and human resources--with a single integrated software program. The idea was that although each department would still have…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Technology, Technology Integration, Colleges
Eichler, Linda; Halperin, Michael – EContent, 2000
Describes the Lippincott Library (Warton School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) online chat reference service for students/faculty/staff to ask questions through chat and get an immediate response using a commercial service provided by LivePerson. LivePerson is a real-time text interface between the user who seeks information and the operator…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Electronic Libraries, Information Services, Library Role
Barclay, Donald A. – 2000
This book, while necessarily concerning itself with computer technology, approaches technology as a tool for providing public-service and helps librarians and others effectively manage public-access computers. The book is organized to progress from more technological to more managerial topics. The first chapter--which answers the question, "What…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Information Services, Information Systems
Dewey, Patrick R. – 2000
The projects collected in this book represent a wide cross section of the way microcomputers are used in libraries. Each project description includes organization and contact information, hardware and software used, cost and project length estimates, and Web or print references when available. Projects come from academic and public libraries,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Information Services

Lankes, R. David – Reference & User Services Quarterly, 1998
Discusses impacts of the Internet on reference services and changing roles for reference librarians. Describes a continuum of libraries (Sutton) from a paper-based (traditional) to a fully digital library. Examines K-12 uses and benefits of digital reference services (question-and-answer services sometimes referred to as AskA's). Describes K-12…
Descriptors: Change, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software, Educational Resources

Kochtanek, Thomas R.; Hein, Karen K. – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Describes a Delphi study of digital libraries (DL; January 1998) focusing on issues related to digital libraries. Highlights include an overview of the Delphi technique; its shortcomings; use of the Delphi Planning System, a Web-based software application; methods for identifying experts and identifying/selection questions; and results of the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Delphi Technique, Electronic Libraries, Information Services
Woods, Kam A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Over the past several decades, millions of digital objects of significant scientific, economic, cultural, and historic value have been published and distributed to libraries and archives on removable media. Providing long-term access to these documents, media files, and software executables is an increasingly complex task because of dependencies…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Research Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Archives
Coyle, Karen – American Libraries, 1997
To prevent vastly different Internet access policies from creating uneven service for patrons from community to community, the author argues that librarians, as the logical champions, must define "universal service." Offers hardware, software, Internet functions, training, and service as some of the elements of access that should be…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Computers, Information Services

Eckley, Tami-Jo – Library Computing, 1999
This article focuses on Obvia Corporation, a New York-based company that offers remote data access (RDA) through a server software system allowing for an easy, controllable, cost-effective management solution to the remote access problem. Using Obvia's RDA service, librarians can focus on administrative and professional decisions and spend more…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Information Networks, Information Services
Bell, Lori; Peters, Thomas A. – Computers in Libraries, 2004
The Internet is many things to many people. Some see the Internet as the Wild West, a yawning wilderness waiting to be tamed and cultivated. For companies like eBay, the Internet is a steady, transaction-based revenue stream. For the dot-com companies, the Internet was perceived as a California gold rush. In terms of online library programming for…
Descriptors: Programming, Internet, Library Networks, Online Systems
Ferrer, Daniel – 1985
The Pacific Information Center (PIC) was established in 1983 to identify, collect, and record information about materials from and relating to the South Pacific region. The project involves sharing access and information among countries in this region. PIC, which works in conjunction with the University of the South Pacific (USP) Library, receives…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Foreign Countries
Dysart, Jane I; Jones, Rebecca J. – Computers in Libraries, 1995
Describes steps in renovating information service tools: (1) review why organization exists; (2) refocus direction to keep in step with clients and environment; and (3) redefine client's needs. Old tools (books and journals) can be transformed via technology into new tools (full-text CD-ROM products and online interlibrary loan services). (JMV)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks

Grass, Charlene – Journal of Library Administration, 1991
Presents 101 variables for use in developing a microcomputing profile and determining the type of microcomputing management appropriate for a library. Variables are presented in 16 categories, including the larger institutional, library, and financial profiles; administration's stance on microcomputing; user profiles; training and support for…
Descriptors: Budgets, Computer Software, Guidelines, Information Services
Jackson, Mary E. – Library Journal, 1998
Assesses the changes in interlibrary loan (ILL) practices, and points the way to an ideal future. Discusses patron-initiated document request systems; library-mediated ordering systems; document delivery suppliers; accessing electronic resources; ILL management software; paying ILL invoices; new electronic delivery options; and results of a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Document Delivery, Information Services, Information Systems