When your library is in the market to purchase new computers, be sure to consider the total cost of ownership and not just the sticker price on the computer.

A comprehensive guide to preparing for any predicament and disaster recovery.

Suggestions for free, open-source, or inexpensive solutions to help your library have a visible presence on the Web.

This Excel spreadsheet from NPower can serve as a template for a technology budget for a small library. The spreadsheet uses eight staff as an example, but is appropriate for a library with approximately 1-20 staff members.

This Excel spreadsheet from NPower can serve as a template for a technology budget for a medium-sized library. The spreadsheet uses thirty staff as an example, but is appropriate for a library with approximately 20-80 staff members.

This Excel spreadsheet from NPower can serve as a template for a technology budget for a large library. The spreadsheet uses 120 staff as an example, but is appropriate for a library with 80 or more staff members.

How a library IT Manager supports her system?s computers today, while keeping an eye on the future.

Expanding on Maslow's hierarchy of needs -- physical needs must be met before psychological needs can be addressed -- Doug Johnson posits that an institution must meet infrastructure needs before it can use technology to meet its mission.

Guiding Ohio Online is an AmeriCorps program that places members in rural Ohio libraries to deliver digital literacy training through computer classes, one-on-one computer assistance, outreach, and volunteer recruitment.

A checklist from the Connecticut State Library to help you walk through your library's technology planning process.

A guide to creating a library technology plan through team building and engagement with front-line staff. The authors gave this presentation at the Computers in Libraries 2005 conference describing their real-world experiences at the Sacra...

The authors describe how the Sacramento Public Library developed a technology strategy to better achieve the library's goals and overcome the traditional gulf between public services librarians and information technology (IT) staff.