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Mercado, Marina I. – Bottom Line, 1998
Explores library-related implications of the U.S. Department of Justice's investigations into the operations of Microsoft and Intel and suggests that developing a broader understanding of information technology marketing is crucial to the short- and long-term future of libraries. (MES)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Information Industry, Information Technology, Investigations
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Breeding, Marshall – Library Software Review, 1996
Provides a list of companies that offer commercial library software and describes the systems and tools they offer. Integrated library systems, networking systems, bibliographic software, and other library applications are included. (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Integrated Library Systems
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Breeding, Marshall – Library Software Review, 1997
Provides an update to the list of companies that offer commercial library software and describes the systems and tools they offer. Integrated library systems, networking systems, bibliographic software, and other library applications are included. (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Integrated Library Systems
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Duval, Beverly K.; Main, Linda – Library Software Review, 1994
Describes expert systems and discusses their use in libraries. Highlights include parts of an expert system; expert system shells; an example of how to build an expert system; a bibliography of 34 sources of information on expert systems in libraries; and a list of 10 expert system shells used in libraries. (Contains five references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Expert Systems, Information Sources, Library Automation, Man Machine Systems
DeJoice, Mary Jo; Sennyey, Pongracz – Illinois Libraries, 2000
Considers how the implementation of self-checkout systems may affect library management in general and circulation departments in particular, focusing on the impact on circulation departments' workflow and the financial implications involved in implementing it. Suggests an opportunity for libraries to undergo a paradigm shift concerning the…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Circulation, Library Funding
Breeding, Marshall – Computers in Libraries, 2005
In this column, the author relates his experiences in the use of library technology over his 20-year career at Vanderbilt University. He describes how computers in libraries have transformed almost every aspect of how the library provides its services and performs its work behind the scenes. In addition, the author shares a few successful…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Technology, Electronic Libraries, Library Automation
Prisk, Dennis P.; Brooks, Monica G. – Computers in Libraries, 2005
Since technology is so expensive, making the wrong purchasing decisions can have severe financial consequences. The purpose of this article is to describe three technology decisions that failed to achieve their original intent. For each of the three, the author's discuss the expectations of the chief information officer, the vendor's sales pitch,…
Descriptors: Purchasing, Libraries, Information Technology, Educational Technology
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2004
Library media specialists need tools to help them manage the school library media program. The Internet includes a vast array of tools that a library media specialist might find useful. The websites and electronic resources included in this article are only a representative sample and future columns may explore additional tools. All the tools are…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, School Libraries, Librarians, Library Administration
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 2004
Virtual reference services seem a natural extension of libraries digital collections and the emphasis on access to the library anytime, anywhere. If patrons use the library from home, it makes sense to provide them with person-to-person online reference. The Library of Congress (LC), OCLC, and several large library systems have developed and…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Reference Services, Library Services, Electronic Libraries
Tennant, Roy – Library Journal, 2005
In the article, the author talks about the benefits of grid networks. In speaking of grid networks the author is referring to both networks of computers and networks of humans connected together in a grid topology. Examples are provided of how grid networks are beneficial today and the ways in which they have been used.
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Internet, Library Automation, Computer Networks
Tennant, Roy – Library Journal, 2005
Metadata is often created in a time-consuming process by catalogers, digital library technicians, and others. It is then underused in the systems. But recent experiments by some library organizations indicate that only the surface is being scratched on what data can do. The American West Project at the California Digital Library (CDL) is…
Descriptors: Metadata, Information Management, Information Processing, Electronic Libraries
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Samson, Sue; Oelz, Erling – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005
The Information Center (IC) evolved to take control of technology, to integrate the library's growing collection of networked resources with its service mission, to build a team of personnel committed to the success of the IC, and to integrate assessment into the cycle of change at the Mansfield Library.
Descriptors: Information Sources, Library Services, Academic Libraries, Systems Development
Martin, Elisabeth; Kenney, Brian – Library Journal, 2004
In an age of experimentation, library users from Cerritos, California, to Salt Lake City to Seattle are experiencing public libraries the likes of which they have never before seen. While the 1990s may be remembered as the era of the anchor facility, when libraries were called upon to define and support a community's renaissance, this decade's…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Automation, Electronic Libraries, Library Services
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Lin, Steven – Educational Perspectives, 2006
After two years of construction, American Samoa Community College opened its new library on September 2, 2003. The library is located on the east side of campus and is equipped with ten computer workstations, four online public access catalogs, three copying machines, and an elevator that is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Professional Development, Library Role
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Coyle, Karen – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
Mass digitization of the bound volumes that we generally call "books" has begun, and, thanks to the interest in Google and all that it does, it is getting widespread media attention. The Open Content Alliance (OCA), a library initiative formed after Google announced its library book digitization project, has brought library digitization projects…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Libraries, Search Engines, Internet
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