REPORT ON THE HEADS OF LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY INTEREST GROUP PANEL PRESENTATION: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: VIRTUALIZATION IN LIBRARIES, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, DC, JUNE 2010

摘要

The purpose of Heads of Library Technology (HoLT) is to provide a forum and support network for people with administrative responsibility for computing and technology in a library setting. Last year during ALA Annual, participants in the HoLT Interest Group meeting selected the topic on "Vir-tualization in Libraries" from a long list of challenges facing libraries. Many of us have heard compelling reasons for putting library resources into the cloud during other sessions at ALA. This panel presentation, however, is on the in-house use of virtualization technologies in large research, midsize, and public libraries.