Technology Planning
Evaluating Your Technology Plan
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
A collection of resources for creating on ongoing review and update process for your library technology plan. In order for your library's technology plan to have any real value, it's important to regularly review it and make sure the plan reflects reality, especially in light of changing technologies.
- Getting to Know Your Library: the Community
- Getting to Know Your Library: Computers
- Getting to Know Your Library: eBooks, Digital Media and Databases
- Getting to Know Your Library: Marketing
- Getting to Know Your Library: Policies
- Getting to Know Your Library: Resources and Logistics
- Getting to Know Your Library: The Books!
- Getting to Know Your Library: Volunteers
- Steps to Success: Computer Class and Resource Referral List
- Steps to Success: Delivering Classroom Training
- Steps to Success: eReaders, Tablets and Smartphones
- Steps to Success: Grant Writing
- Steps to Success: Marketing
- Steps to Success: Outreach
- Steps to Success: Providing One-on-One Assistance
- Steps to Success: Plan a New Computer Class
- Steps to Success: Troubleshooting
- Steps to Success: Volunteers
- Level Up: Attend a Community Event
- Level Up: Community Data Gathering
- Level Up: Create or update a Handout
- Level Up: Create or update a Screencast or Online How-to Guide
- Level Up: Create a Volunteer Handbook
- Level Up: Demographics and Polices
- Level Up: Emerging Technology
- Level Up: Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Service
- Level Up: Google Analytics
- Level Up: Implement a New Technology
- Level Up: Open Source Software
- Level Up: Partnerships
- Level Up: Privacy
- Level Up: Reflect
- Level Up: Put Together a Technology Policy
- Level Up: Put Together a Troubleshooting Checklist
- Level Up: Safe Social Networking
- Level Up: Social Media
- Level Up: Staff Training
- Level Up: Understanding Filtering
- Level Up: Understanding the needs of People with Disabilities in Your Community
- Level Up: Understand Security
- Level Up: User Experience
- Level Up: Web Content
- Where might I find volunteers for tech training?
- Volunteer with Your Library!
- Volunteer Time Sheet
Guiding Ohio Online: Volunteer Technology Instructor Training
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Implement a Technology Plan
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
Now that you have a technology plan, you still have to carry it out. Here are some helpful hints on how to transform your plan into action.
Maslow and Motherboards: A Hierarchical View of Technology Planning
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Planning Makes Perfect
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
How a library IT Manager supports her system?s computers today, while keeping an eye on the future.
Sample Technology Budget for a Large Library
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Sample Technology Budget for a Medium Library
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Sample Technology Budget for a Small Library
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Technology Solutions for Rural and Small Libraries
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
Suggestions for free, open-source, or inexpensive solutions to help your library have a visible presence on the Web.
- techsoup-disaster-recovery-guide.doc
- techsoup-disaster-recovery-guide.pdf
- techsoup-disaster-recovery-worksheets.xls
The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning & Recovery
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
A comprehensive guide to preparing for any predicament and disaster recovery.
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