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PLA TechNotes were short, web-based papers that introduce specific technologies for public librarians.

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    Wireless LANs
    (Public Library Association, 2010-08-31) Boss, Richard W.
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    Wireless LANs
    (Public Library Association, 2006-03-28) Boss, Richard W.
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    Web Services
    (Public Library Association, 2011-08-15) Boss, Richard W.
    Web services have been defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as “a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.” The W3C is an international consortium that develops protocols and guidelines for the Web. It also establishes the mark-up validity of web documents in HTML, XHTML, and other mark-up languages to make sure that they conform to the rules. Web services utilize Web 2.0, the most recent generation of the Web.
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    Web Services
    (Public Library Association, 2004-08-25) Boss, Richard W.
    The term "Web services" describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications—including databases, spread sheets, word processing, and communications— using the XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI open standards over the Internet.
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    Voice Over IP
    (Public Library Association, 2009-08-31) Boss, Richard W.
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    Voice Over IP
    (Public Library Association, 2006-03-20) Boss, Richard W.
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    Virtual Reference
    (Public Library Association, 2010-03-22) Boss, Richard W.
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    Virtual Reference
    (Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.
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    Unicode
    (Public Library Association, 2008-05-08) Boss, Richard W.
    Unicode is an international character-encoding standard designed to support the electronic exchange, processing, storage, and display of the written texts of all of the world’s languages and scripts, including scientific, mathematical, and technical symbols. Unicode is an encoding standard, not a software program or a font. The standard is independent of operating systems, programming languages, database management systems, and hardware platforms. Before Unicode, there were hundreds of different encoding schemes; no single one could contain enough characters. The European Union alone required several for its languages.
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    Unicode
    (Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.
    Unicode is the key to building multi-lingual databases. The protocol, which is international, is generally defined as a unique number for every character no matter what the hardware platform, software program, or language.
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    Unicode: From Chinese to Cherokee; from Kana to Klingon
    (Public Library Association, 2000-06) DeCandido, GraceAnne A.
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    Software as a Service
    (Public Library Association, 2009) Boss, Richard W.
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    Software for Children
    (Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.
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    Social Networking Sites and Libraries
    (Public Library Association, 2009-10-28) Boss, Richard W.
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    RFID Technology for Libraries
    (Public Library Association, 2011-07-19) Boss, Richard W.
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    RFID Technology for Libraries
    (Public Library Association, 2006-02-02) Boss, Richard W.
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    Rethinking Library Statistics in a Changing Environment
    (Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.
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    Report Writers
    (Public Library Association, 2010-09-17) Boss, Richard W.
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    Remote Conferencing
    (Public Library Association, 2009-08-19) Boss, Richard W.