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-====== Introduction & Roadmap ======
+====== ICT Handbook for Parliamentary Libraries ======
+====== Table of Contents ======
+Table of Contents
+Chapter 1 - Introduction
+Chapter 2 - Selection and Management of Library ICT Services
+Chapter 3 - Core Library Services
+Chapter 4 - Archives and Records Management
+Chapter 5 - Social Media and Web
+Chapter 6 - Impact measures and statistics
+Glossary
+Further Reading
+====== Background to the Handbook ======
+This handbook has been sponsored by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliamentary Libraries and the IFLA Parliamentary Libraries Section.   The handbook has been prepared by Dr Edmund Balnaves in conjunction with an international editorial committee comprising Soledad Ferreiro (Chile), Moira Fraser (New Zealand), Adolfo Furtado (Brazil), Daniela Giacomelli (Global Centre for ICT), John Pullinger (United Kingdom), Roxanne Missingham (Australia), Sari Pajula (Finland), Albert Nuntja (South Africa), Andy Richardson (Switzerland), Innocent Rugambwa (Uganda), Donna Scheeder (United States of America), Raissa Teodori (Italy), William Young (Canada).
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+====== Chapter 1: Introduction & Roadmap ======
 ===== The ICT-based Library =====
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 The roadmap in this section and the chapters that follow present ICT practice that can enhance the role of the library and reinforce these values.
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 ===== Using this handbook =====
 This handbook provides an overview of Information Communications Technology in Parliamentary Libraries.   Each section has a discussion of technology and ICT services and further information categorised into:
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+SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
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+CASE STUDIES
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+This handbook also includes a **Glossary** that explains the many acronyms and technical terms used with ICT systems for libraries.
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 ====Step 4:  Develop a plan for your library for social networking and Web 2.0====
-Web 2.0 provides opportunities for the library to make services more visible and more accessible.  The challenge of Web 2.0 is to maintain the relevance of the library in the context where parliamentary members and their staff are drawing on divers information sources.  Their awareness of the ongoing role of the parliamentary library and the ways it can support their function is critical.  In the web 20 engaged world, this can entail exploring social media to ensure that the library is engaged and present in the domains of discourse favoured by their clientèle.
+Web 2.0 provides opportunities for the library to make services more visible and more accessible.  The challenge of Web 2.0 is to maintain the relevance of the library in the context where parliamentary members and their staff are drawing on divers information sources.  Their awareness of the ongoing role of the parliamentary library and the ways it can support their function is critical.  In the Web 2.0 engaged world, this can entail exploring social media to ensure that the library is present in the domains of discourse favoured by their clientèle.
 The fifth chapter in this workbook explores the role of social media and Web 2.0  The values expressed in the "Guidelines for Legislative libraries" are potentially challenged or enhanced by the pressures the social network and Web 2.0 place on the parliamentary library.  Members and their staff may now have divers sources of information to draw on.  In this context, it becomes all the more important to focus on parliamentary needs by situating the library in the information "places" that they frequent.   Equally, it is all the more significant to robustly project the role of the library as an effective and impartial information source for members.  Channeling information synthesis through distribution channels that include web 2.0 may be a growing part of the picture for libraries.
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