Technology and digital library services

A guide to resources on the impact of technology in libraries, with particular focus on developing digital library services.

BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT: The Institute fosters links between experts from industry, academia and business to promote new thinking, education and knowledge sharing.

BIC (Book Industry Communication): BIC is an independent organisation set up and sponsored by the Publishers Association, Booksellers Association, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and the British Library to promote supply chain efficiency in all sectors of the book world through e-commerce and the application of standard processes and procedures.

Campus Technology: A higher education technology website and magazine that provides updated information about advanced networking for the campus enterprise and carries features on learning resources, library management systems and shared services.

Artefacto blog: Updates, tutorials and announcements from Artefacto: Creative technology & creative learning for the cultural sector.

Library Technology Guides: The website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. Blog of Marshall Breeding.

TechSoup for Libraries: Newsbytes - what's new in library technology?

Ten innovative technologies for the library of the future: Library technology blog from Princh.

Community engagement solutions for public libraries: This briefing paper by Ken Chad outlines the challenges public libraries face in reshaping their community profile. It highlights how emerging community engagement solutions may help target existing and potential users in repositioning public libraries and refreshing their services. May 2021.

Access, delivery, performance: the future of libraries without walls: Facet, 2008. Offers strategies for the future direction of library and information services in the virtual era.

Delivering digital services: a handbook for public libraries and learning centres: Facet, 2005. Practical guidance and expertise for staff in libraries and learning centres in setting up, developing and managing effective digital services.

Digital consumers: reshaping the information professions: Facet, 2008. Key strategic areas covered in this book include: the digital consumer, the digital information marketplace, the growth of the informed purchaser, the library in the digital age, the psychology of the digital information consumer, the virtual scholar, the Google generation and trends in digital information consumption.

Digital information: order or anarchy?: Facet, 2009. Put together by an international, cross-sectoral team of contributors, each authored chapter provides a snapshot of where we are now and considers how the barriers to success might be overcome and what the digital information environment might look like.

E-books in libraries: a practical guide: Facet, 2011. Essential background reading for librarians wishing to develop an e-book collection from scratch or for those responsible for maintaining an existing e-book collection.

Information users and usability in the digital age: Facet, 2010. Information users and usability are the main building blocks of today's electronic information world. This book is the first to give a holistic overview of all of the issues relating to information users and the usability of information services in the digital world, including user-centred design, and the characteristics and behaviour of information users.

RFID for libraries: a practical guide: What RFID technology is and how it works. (2010)

Technology training in libraries: Facet, 2010. This guide from Sarah Houghton-Jan presents practical, start-to-finish guidance for the successful implementation of a low-cost, comprehensive, and effective staff technology training program in the library.

Web 2.0 and libraries: impacts, technologies and trends: Woodhead, 2010. An analysis of a key topic. It explores how libraries can exploit the potential of emerging technologies and provides strategies and techniques for supporting learners in the virtual and physical environment.