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February 26, 2008
How to keep the computer equipment in public libraries: the project MaintainIT
MaintainIT is a project of TechSoup, a non-profit organization that provides integrated resources to solve technology needs, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is designed to share ideas and experiences among public libraries in the United States and Canada (focusing primarily in 18 states, which receive free upgrades software). The goal is to identify best practices in support of the public computers and share them with others, using the collective intelligence of professionals.
Its Web site can be found, as well as information about the project, in the short articles that librarians tell their stories, and cookbooks or recipe books. These are documents prepared by working groups and open licensed under Creative Commons, which contain "recipes" for the maintenance of computer equipment based on the ideas and feedback from the professionals. So far created two cookbooks, including one focused on the issue of libraries in rural areas, who tend to have less training, time and resources.
---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.
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Published: February 26, 2008
Category: Public libraries
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