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Creating a Local Area Network in the School Library Media Center
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Becky R. Mather
Book Code: GR0094
ISBN: 0-313-30094-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30094-3
160 pages, figures
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/1997
List Price: $52.00 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • It is a very methodical, yet easy to read, work that takes that dreaming teacher-librarian or the seasoned practitioner, step by step through the process of setting up a LAN.
    —Emergency Librarian
Description: Let an award-winning school library media specialist who has implemented a local area network (LAN) in her media center help you plan this important addition to your media center while avoiding the pitfalls. This hands-on practical guide contains all the information the network novice needs to plan, fund, create, and maintain a LAN in the media center. Based on the experience of the school library media specialist who received the 1994 Follett/AASL "Microcomputer in the Media Center Award" for creating a local area network in the high school media center, this guide describes the procedures for planning, designing, funding, installing, organizing, training, evaluating, and maintaining a LAN in a library media center setting. Step-by-step nontechnical instructions and advice for creating an information network are presented in an understandable format. How to expand into a school-district wide area network (WAN) and gain access to the Internet are also discussed. This comprehensive work takes the network novice from dream to implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of a local area network. It covers funding sources, tips for writing technology grants, requests for proposals from vendors, staff inservice and student training, evaluation and assessment, student internships, technology teams, troubleshooting equipment, and network administration. Useful forms, simple network schematic diagrams, a model school-board approved electronic resources policy, a glossary of technical terms, and sample assessment tools are included. No other book walks the library media specialist through every step in creating a LAN. Media professionals who want to provide networked electronic information to the staff and students but are not sure of how to proceed will benefit from this clear, nontechnical guide to the process.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • What Is a Network, and Why Do I Need One?
  • Planning Your Network
  • Funding Sources
  • The Dream Becomes Reality
  • Technology Training: Who Needs What?
  • Life as You Know It Is Over
  • Keeping It Running: Troubleshooting and Maintenance
  • What's Next?
  • Appendices
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-50290
LCC Class: Z675
Dewey Class: 027
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