This new book is out now. I will admit to a certain pejudice in promoting it. I wrote the chapter on Wireless LANs. My payment was one copy of the book and all of the praise I will receive.
Technology for the rest of us :a primer on computer technologies for the low-tech librarian .Nancy Courtney, ed.,2005,Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, ; ISBN: 1591582334 (alk. paper)
Contents Include:
Introduction by Nancy Courtney; Computer Networks by Robert Molyneux; Wireless LANs by Wilfred Drew Jr.; Cybertheft, Network Security, and the Library without Walls by Mark Cain; OpenURL Basics by Walt Crawford; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) by Eric H. Schnell; Blogs and RSS by Darlene Fichter and H. Frank Cervone; Introduction to XML by Art Rhyno; The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting by Sarah L. Shreeves; Institutional Repositiories by Charly Bauer; Adaptive Technologies by Jerry Hensley; Let’s Get Digital by Samantha K. Hastings and Elise C. Lewis; Selected Bibliography by Kathleen M. Webb; Glossary by Frances Rice; Index
The book is based on Ohio State University “Technology for the Rest of Us” conference from May 2004. it was a great 3 day seminar that I was only able to attend for two days. My chapter is based on my presentation given there with much updated maerial added.
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