Ebook: Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work
Author: Margaret Heller
- Tags: Language Arts Nonfiction LAN025000
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: American Library Association
- Language: English
- epub
As a newly minted librarian, Heller volunteered at a grassroots independent library founded to bring together the work of disparate art communities of Chicago. Since then she has participated in many library technology communities with stints on boards, working groups, conference planning committees, and social media-based outreach. Grounded in her research of dozens of community tech projects, Heller presents a guide exploring how they work, how to get involved, and how to make them better. Library technology managers, grantmakers, scholars, and project managers will all benefit from Heller's incisive discussion of such topics as
For readers who want to get started with community technology projects, as well as those who are already engaged in collaborations, the techniques and best practices in Heller's guide will provide the tools and inspiration to make better library technology communities.