Full Description
Providing library users with actual pieces of technological equipment that they can borrow is a continuously expanding service at many libraries, especially as faculty and teachers require multimodal projects. For some libraries, loanable technology may include calculators, gaming devices, headphones, e-readers, laptops, and tablets. Increasingly though, there is also demand for all types of cameras, lighting, voice recorders, microphones, external storage devices, projectors, peripherals and converters, among hundreds of possibilities.
Based on their successful program at a large research institution, the authors provide a practical manual, complete with examples, forms, and templates that cover all aspects of establishing and maintaining a loanable technology program.
Going Beyond Books to Loaning Technologies: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides the nuts and bolts and the "behind-the scenes" details of developing a program and walks librarians and information technology professionals through even some of the complex decisions and processes, such as:
needs assessment budget allocation selecting, cataloging, processing and storing equipment; circulation, billing, and troubleshooting training collaborating with others to offer consultation servicesmarketing, and assessment
Practical and easy to understand, here is a one-stop guide for anyone interested in lending technology to patrons.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Establishing a Loanable Technology Program
Chapter 2. Identifying Need
Chapter 3. Determining Types of Equipment to Purchase
Chapter 4. Budgeting
Chapter 5. Cataloging Items
Chapter 6. Processing, Packaging, and Housing Loanable Technology
Chapter 7. Creating Policies
Chapter 8. Reserving, Checking Out, and Checking In Loanable Technology
Chapter 9. Billing, Fines, and Communication with Patrons
Chapter 10. Training and Support
Chapter 11. Assessing the Program
Appendix A: Stages of the Loanable Technology Program at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois
Appendix B: Sample Surveys
Index
About the Authors
