Building a Library in the Sky – The Cloud and School Libraries

T.H.E. Journal (Transforming education tHrough Technology) recently spoke with Doug Johnson who, amongst many other accomplishments, is the Director of media and technology for Mankato Area Public Schools. Johnson writes about cloud hosting technology through books, columns and blogs and is an active advocate for school librarians. The conversation was sparked by Johnson’s recent talk about School Libraries and the Cloud. In this interview, Johnson describes how librarians are in a position to lead schools into the cloud age and that cloud hosting technology can help libraries move into the world of “where doing stuff takes precedence over learning how to do stuff”. He spoke of the many ways that cloud hosting technology can be used to help librarians by:

• Improving the library experience for students
• Helping keep school budgets down
• Connect to free e-book systems and similar programs

To read the full interview and follow up with links to Doug Johnson’s blog on technology from a non-tech point of view, read the full story at T.H.E. Journal.  

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