Library Technology Now!
By Kathy Ishizuka -- School Library Journal, 8/1/2005
This Web site—the brainchild of the North Texas Regional Library System's (NTRLS) technology committee—aims to live up to its urgent handle. Just launched this spring, Library Technology Now! (LTN) covers current tech news, with detailed product reviews written by librarians, for librarians. Recent articles include reviews of firewalls, spyware tools, and anti-virus software, all penned by volunteers. “We even have volunteers from Canada, Egypt, and India,” says Diane Neal, Web producer and head of LTN's editorial board. LTN also features a blog, with commentary that runs from “hard-tech stuff,” configuring software and the like, to “light tech stuff,” such as a link to a helpful article on wireless security, says Adam Wright, manager of services for NTRLS and LTN's co-Web producer. But most participants, thus far, represent the academic community, he says, “so some of the feedback we were getting was that [the site] wasn't relating to school librarians in any way.”
So LTN is seeking a school librarian to sit on LTN's editorial board. The goal? “To tell us what to do to reach our K–12 peers,” says Wright.
