From cloud computing to data curation to open-source software, the world of technology offers great opportunity--and potential frustration. Nancy Courtney and her team of IT experts have set out to enhance the former and alleviate the latter. "More Technology for the Rest of Us: A Second Primer on Computing for the Non-IT Librarian" follows up on Courtney's 2005 technology volume by tackling the most recent advances in IT. Each chapter describes a technology important to the library field, explains how it works in terms a non-IT professional can understand, and describes its uses.

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