Technology

Format: Meeting Room

Learning how to use new gadgets is always a challenge. The challenge is even greater for library staff who are called upon to help customers with their devices! Add to that the fear factor of not being able to figure it out on the spot or possibly breaking it and it's easy to understand why some of us become technophobes.

(An Infopeople Online Learning Course)
May 22, 2007 - June 18, 2007

Library technology has changed dramatically since the days of card catalogs and IBM Selectric typewriters. Now, libraries have entire departments of workers dedicated to automation and public computers and the hundreds of computers, servers, networks, and systems required to keep today's libraries functioning. This course provides an overview of library technology being used today and provides perspective about how we got here.

This workshop is co-sponsored by Infopeople and Califa

Libraries have offered e-books for years now. But many librarians are still not sure what to do with them. More recently, libraries have started adding downloadable audio books, streaming animated picture stories, downloadable music, and now downloadable video.