[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [alacro-l] ALA lauds three library programs for best use of cutting-edge technologies]

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI,

Suzanne L. Sager
Oregon ALA Chapter Councilor

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Subject: 	[alacro-l] ALA lauds three library programs for best use of 
cutting-edge technologies
Date: 	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:23:59 -0400
From: 	Don Wood <dwood at ala.org>
To: 	<alacro-l at ala.org>



District Dispatch has posted a new item, 'ALA lauds three library 
programs for best use of cutting-edge technologies 
<http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4619>'

Contact: Jenni Terry <mailto://jterry@alawash.org>
Press Officer, ALA Washington Office
202-628-8410

For Immediate Release 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) Office for 
Information Technology Policy (OITP) has recognized Contra Costa County 
Library in Pleasant Hill, Calif.; North Carolina State University 
Libraries in Raleigh, N.C.; and Jones Library in Amherst, Mass., for 
their use of cutting-edge technologies in library services.

In June 2009, OITP and the subcommittee for its Program on America’s 
Libraries for the 21^st Century 
<http://0-www.ala.org.sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/ala/aboutala/offices/oitp/programs/americaslibs/index.cfm> 
issued a call for nominations for best library practices using 
cutting-edge technology to showcase libraries that are serving their 
communities with novel and innovative methods.

“We were looking to find creative ways libraries are using technology, 
such as applying 21^st century technologies to provide a new way of 
delivering a traditional service or using traditional technologies in a 
novel way for delivering a service. The three winners all fit our 
criteria,” said Vivian Pisano, Chief of Information Technology, San 
Francisco Public Library, and Chair of OITP’s Advisory Committee and 
Subcommittee on America’s Libraries for the 21^st Century.

After selecting the winners, OITP produced descriptions of the programs 
<http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/CuttingEdgeLibraries.pdf> to 
provide the library community with some successful models for delivering 
quality library service in new ways.

“The selection committee looked at many submissions, but these three 
projects stood out because they could be replicated by other libraries,” 
said Christine Lind Hage, Director, Rochester Hills Public Library, who 
chaired the selection committee.

“In particular we were looking for creative solutions to common problems 
using readily available and affordable technology.”

*_About the Winners:_*

*Library-a-Go-Go, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, Calif. *

The Library-a-Go-Go service uses fully automated touchscreen 
materials-lending machines to provide stand-alone library services in 
non-library environments. For more information: 
http://ccclib.org/locations/libraryagogo.html_._

*Course Views [Library Tools] Project, North Carolina State University 
(NCSU) Libraries, Raleigh, N.C. *

The NCSU Libraries implemented a cutting-edge service in response to the 
difficulty of creating and maintaining enough “course pages” – 
recommended resources for specific courses and assignments – to meet 
students’ needs. The Course Views system provides pages for all 6,000 
courses offered by over 150 departments at NCSU. For more information: 
www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/courseviews 
<http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/courseviews>.

*Digital Amherst, a project of the Jones Library, Amherst, Mass.*

Digital Amherst provides digital historical and cultural 
materials—photographs and other images, articles, lectures and 
multimedia presentations—to Amherst locals, scholars and tourists.  For 
more information: www.digitalamherst.org/ <http://www.digitalamherst.org/>.



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Jacob Roberts
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Suzanne L. Sager
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Portland State University

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