An Internet resource prepared for librarians. This edition contains updated coverage of everything librarians need to know to keep up-to-date with the enormous changes taking place in both the world's biggest computer network and libraries. The text covers the entire spectrum of library-related topics from Internet basics to digital library design, intranets, extranets, metadata, computer security, information architecture, filters, copyright, operations, domain name registration, the Linux, e-books, and more. The features of this new edition include: the "Multimedia Experience" - how to...

Benson, the highly acclaimed author of the Neal-Schuman Complete Internet Companion and Connecting Kids and the Internet has created a new and comprehensive multimedia handbook designed specifically to help teach kids to use the Internet and Web resources safety and effectively. School media specialists, children and youth librarians, teachers, home schoolers, parents, and caregivers - even those with no prior knowledge - can quickly get up to speed and immediately use these resources, lesson plans, and ideas. Browsers, email, chat rooms, virtual libraries, search engines and subject trees,...