| FEATURES
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How We Used
Demonstration Authoring Software to Create Tutorials
For tasks that need to be taught again and again, it makes sense to
write your
own online tutorials to save trainers time. These librarians walk you
through
the process of creating tutorials with demonstration authoring
software.By Holley
Long and John Culshaw
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The Evolution of
Technostress
While writing her thesis nearly
10 years ago, this author found that the biggest stresses faced by
librarians were the lack of technology standardization and the pace of
change. What do they find most challenging about their jobs
today? Read this to compare the old stressors to
today’s favorites.
By Lisa A. Ennis
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Determining and Meeting Personnel
Training Needs
When management at the Newport
News (Va.) Public Library Center tied promotions and salaries to
computer proficiency, tech training needed to be provided to all
staffers. Read how this author developed assessment measures and
training modules.
By Anita Jennings |
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Technology
Training Can Be a Piece of Cake
In order to make technology training more palatable, this author
approached it
as if it were a piece of cake. She divided the lessons into three
“layers” that
built upon each other, and translating that knowledge into everyday
tasks was
the icing on the cake.
By Janetta Waterhouse |
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| COLUMNS |
Building
Digital Libraries
Running to Stand Still?
By Terence K. Huwe |
Page 34 |
Computers
in Small Libraries
Learning Server-Side Scripting
By Gary Roberts |
Page 37 |
The
Systems Librarian
The New Landscape of the
Automation Business
By Marshall Breeding |
Page 40 |
Online
Treasures
Once More unto the Breach:
Revisiting Tech Training (Again)
By Janet L. Balas |
Page 43 |
| DEPARTMENTS
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Editor’s Notes
A Cornucopia of Useful Articles
By Kathy Dempsey
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Newsline
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Newsline Reports
ALA Annual Conference Was Full
of Announcements and Pronouncements
By Kathy Dempsey
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ask techman
By D. Scott Brandt |
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| Books
to Check Out |
Page 57 |
| Noted
& Quoted |
Page 58 |
| SPECIAL
SECTIONS |
| How to
Write for CIL |
Page 22 |
Helping
You Buy: Integrated Library Systems
By Andrew K. Pace |
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