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Library Hi Tech News

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ISSN: 0741-9058

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Editorial objectives

Library Hi Tech News (LHTN) helps busy professionals stay abreast of current events and developments in the library and information industry.

Subscriber benefits

As a subscriber to Library Hi Tech News you will be able to:

• Keep ahead of worldwide developments in library technology, so you can exploit their potential to help you improve and extend library services
• Find out what new products and services are potentially useful to you and where you can obtain them
• Stay fully informed about important international issues and activities
• Obtain helpful advice on new technology, information sources and services for library users with disabilities
• Keep pace with everything that is happening in the field via news items, reviews and a diary of forthcoming events

Regular content

• Technology profiles from libraries "around the world"
• Feature articles
• Conference reviews - in-depth conference reports
• New & noteworthy - contains updates on everything of interest to the librarian
• Calendar - a diary of forthcoming events

Submissions particularly welcome in the following areas:

• Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8.0: Review and Implications for Libraries
• Beyond Meebo Chat:  Free Available Programs for Virtual Reference
• Library Uses of Skype
• Blogging Software – Comparison Guide
• Libraries on the Move: Mobile Web Browsers for Smart Phones
• Libraries on the Move:  Library Mobile Applications
• Librarians on the Move: New Ultra Portable Mobile Computers (lightweights with 7” to 10” screens)
• WorldCat Local
• Library Toolbars
• Library Calendar Applications
• Google Books – New Developments and Implications for Libraries
• Ning – Create Your Own Social Networks
• MUVEs Beyond Second Life
• You Tube Videos Made Easy
• Open Source Content Management Packages – Comparison Guide
• Library as Publisher: E Journal Applications/Programs
• Collaboration Networks (e.g. 2collab.com)
• Twitter Applications for Libraries
• Novel Uses of Social Tagging
• Web-Based Gaming and Simulation Software for Libraries
• Freely Available Survey Tools for Libraries
• Rethinking E-Reserves
• Digital Textbooks
• New Library Learning Spaces
• Preservation of Born Digital Information
• Virtual Conferencing
• Keeping Up With Technology

Indexed and abstracted in:

• Current Abstracts
• Current Index to Journals in Education
• INSPEC
• Library and Information Science Abstracts
• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
• The Informed Librarian
• Scopus

Library Hi Tech News is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Library and Information Studies Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

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