Writing and Updating Technology Plans: A Guidebook With Sample Policies on CD-ROM

Designed for librarians, this guide explains how to create, implement, update, evaluate and use a detailed technology plan. It describes how plans are developed, how to maintain them and how to use them as leverage for grant and budget applications. A CD-ROM contains a variety of examples.

For those seeking practical advice on writing a meaningful and useful technology plan for their library, this handbook is a blessing. Step-by-step chapters take the planner through all stages of plan development. Most chapters are very well rounded though some are a bit skimpy on detail; each has a bibliography of other resources for more information. The text itself includes some specific examples of plans, but even more useful is the CD-ROM that holds 52 full technology plans developed by academic/research, public, school, and special libraries. Although the majority are from public libraries, any of them could potentially serve as a valuable model for any library type. Many of the plans are also available online, but no other comparable resource exists that brings all this information conveniently together. Cohn and Ann Kelsey are the director and associate director of the library at the County College of Morris (Randolph, NJ), while Keith Fiels is the director of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. For all libraries.
-Margaret Sylvia, St. Mary's Univ. Academic Lib., San Antonio
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