Electronic Library
A very welcome addition...it would prove very useful for the student or indeed the practitioner who needs to take a quick peek before that next systems meeting.
Journal Of Education For Library and Information Science
The author does a nice job of taking a personal computer from 'black box' to a set of identifiable components for the use, without an overwhelming amount of detail.
Lisca
...offers valuable tips about technologies that are becoming obsolete. This is a highly useful guide for librarians who may be computer users and also a quick resource for definitions and descriptions of new technologies that everyone is trying to learn.
Public Libraries
The value of the book is that it can complete the education for many users.
Reference and Research Book News
Covers hardware and components, operating systems and software, networks and security, and future developments and purchasing.
Reference and User Services Quarterly
Paling's Primer provides a greatly needed, readable guide to practicing librarians in the use, planning, and purchase of computers, and should be on the bookshelf of every librarian and educator.
Electronic Library
A very welcome addition...it would prove very useful for the student or indeed the practitioner who needs to take a quick peek before that next systems meeting..
LISCA
...offers valuable tips about technologies that are becoming obsolete. This is a highly useful guide for librarians who may be computer users and also a quick resource for definitions and descriptions of new technologies that everyone is trying to learn..
Library Journal
This primer is for librarians and administrators who need to get up to speed with computer technology, both in the IBM-compatible (PC) and the Apple world. However, the add-on nature of PC technology makes this book more useful and necessary for the IBM-compatible library. While not intended as a hands-on manual, the book provides the basic vocabulary and overview needed to plan for and use information technology in the library. Paling (technology services librarian, Emmanuel Coll., and instructor, GSLIS, Simmons Coll.) covers hardware and software, including CPUs (central processing units), motherboards, memory chips, storage devices, monitors, printers, sound cards, scanners, power control devices, operating systems, type of software applications, networks, computer viruses, and network computers. The final chapter provides information on shopping, mostly online, for computer hardware and software. Each chapter ends with a summary. Important terms are italicized in the text, listed at the end of each chapter, and defined in a glossary. Written in a straightforward and nontechnical manner that wont overwhelm the computer anxious, this is for librarians, directors, and library students unfamiliar with or confused by computer jargon.Robert Battenfeld, Southampton Coll. Lib., NY
Booknews
A basic introduction to computing terminology and concepts, for librarians who received their training before such matters had found their way into classrooms, and for managers writing budgets and specifications for technology they understand only as low-end users. Covers hardware and components, operating systems and software, networks and security, and future developments and purchasing. Includes a glossary with no pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
