PLA TechNotes
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PLA TechNotes were short, web-based papers that introduce specific technologies for public librarians.
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Item Open Access Using Project Outcome with Summer Reading and Digital Literacy Programs to Support Partnership Development and Expand Services at a Small Library(Public Library Association, 2017-09) Public Library AssociationItem Open Access Wireless LANs(Public Library Association, 2010-08-31) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Wireless LANs(Public Library Association, 2006-03-28) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access Voice Over IP(Public Library Association, 2009-08-31) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Voice Over IP(Public Library Association, 2006-03-20) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Virtual Reference(Public Library Association, 2010-03-22) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Virtual Reference(Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access Unicode: From Chinese to Cherokee; from Kana to Klingon(Public Library Association, 2000-06) DeCandido, GraceAnne A.Item Open Access Software as a Service(Public Library Association, 2009) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Software for Children(Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Social Networking Sites and Libraries(Public Library Association, 2009-10-28) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access RFID Technology for Libraries(Public Library Association, 2011-07-19) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access RFID Technology for Libraries(Public Library Association, 2006-02-02) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Rethinking Library Statistics in a Changing Environment(Public Library Association, 2006) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Report Writers(Public Library Association, 2010-09-17) Boss, Richard W.Item Open Access Remote Conferencing(Public Library Association, 2009-08-19) Boss, Richard W.