Gadgets and Gizmos: Personal Electronics and the Library (Library Technology Reports)
We live in the age of cell phones, iPads and netbooks, where gadgets are everywhere, and many people use one at nearly every waking moment. The newest gadgets don't often come cheap, and a poor investment can be costly for an institution like a library.In this issue of Library Technology Reports, eminent blogger and library technology expert Jason Griffey provides a comprehensive guide to the present and future of modern gadgets, and how they can fit in to any librarian's plan
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Gadgets and Gizmos by Jason Griffey: an Informative Must-Read for Librarians and Others,
I don’t know you may not have realized it, but we are income in the midst of an ongoing information revolution, in which confidential electronics or “gadgets” and “gizmos” are key components that have tremendous the makings to transform societies and institutions such as libraries. In this book, which was published as an come forth of Library Technology Intelligence (Vol. 46, No. 3), Griffey (Head of Library Information Technology, Academe of Tennessee, Chattanooga; leader of movable Technology and Libraries and with Karen A. Coombs Library Blogging; journalist for American Libraries “Perpetual Beta” and the ALA TechSource blog), a well- known library technology expert, provides a handbook to several “contemporary,” moderately inexpensive– most are less than $300 and none are stuck-up than $500–confidential electronic harvest and how they fit into any library’s plans for a high- tech future. The leader examines a handful of confidential electronic harvest in stipulations of their features, normal, functionalities, expenditure, and applications for libraries. Focusing solidly on electronic book readers or e-readers, he also includes various multimedia skill for “capturing and consuming” as well as odd or scarce technologies. Some of the categories of gadgets reviewed by Griffey contain e-readers, video cameras, audio recorders, scanners, and multimedia players. The leader covers many of the most ordinary harvest such as Sony e-readers, the Amazon Revive, the Barnes & upper-class Nook, the Flip, the Sony Bloggie, the Zoom H2, the iPod In tears, the Apple iPad, and more. While he primarily scrutinizes confidential electronic harvest of implication to libraries, librarians, and their customers, he also references significant software applications and Internet websites. Professional and technical in deal with, but understandable to anyone who may have a vital to intermediate knowledge of confidential electronic harvest and their applications, this publication will be of appeal to librarians and others. An vital, informative resource for librarians and their staffs, it is highly not compulsory for broadcast, literary, and special library collections–C. A. Lajos, The Librarian’s Review of Books
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