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This easy-to-read book provides useful descriptions, how-to information, real-world examples, and comparisons of a wide variety of highly accessible technology tools. It is likely to inspire new projects at a wide variety of libraries. -- Mary Broussard, associate professor, instructional services librarian, and coordinator of reference and web services, Lycoming College This book will be especially helpful for instruction librarians looking for easy ways to increase collaboration and quickly assess learning in their classrooms. All the tools Kirsch describes are free (or almost!), which is an added bonus. -- Megan Hodge, assistant head for teaching and learning and assistant professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Libraries of all types and sizes can benefit from Kirsch’s value-added recommendations. * Library Journal * An explosion of education, outreach and collaboration technologies challenges librarians to choose those that will best advance their ability to educate students, connect with community members and improve library services. Kirsch’s guide is the solution they need because it does all the groundwork for selecting the best, most accessible technologies and then offers smart, sensible tips for how to get the most out of them – without breaking the library budget. Librarians lack the time to learn it all when it comes to the technologies they need to be their most productive. Thanks to Kirsch, that’s now one less thing to worry about. -- Steven Bell, associate university librarian for research and instructional services, Temple University This easy-to-read book provides useful descriptions, how-to information, real-world examples, and comparisons of a wide variety of highly accessible technology tools. It is likely to inspire new projects at a wide variety of libraries. -- Mary Broussard, associate professor, instructional services librarian, and coordinator of reference and web services, Lycoming College This book will be especially helpful for instruction librarians looking for easy ways to increase collaboration and quickly assess learning in their classrooms. All the tools Kirsch describes are free (or almost!), which is an added bonus. -- Megan Hodge, assistant head for teaching and learning and assistant professor, Virginia Commonwealth University Breanne Kirsch draws on her years of hands-on instructional technology experience to highlight practical, low-cost tools that will empower both new and experienced library professionals. For each tool, she identifies advantages and challenges as well as easy to-follow implementation tips. This guide is accessible to those on a tight budget and incredibly useful to those wanting to spice up their instruction and outreach. -- Rachel Vacek, head of design and discovery, Library Information Technology, University of Michigan Library

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Breanne A. Kirsch is a public services librarian at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina and the Coordinator of Emerging Technologies. She has an MLIS from Dominican University and was a 2011 American Library Association Emerging Leader and a past Chair of both the Imagineering Interest Group and the Game Making Interest Group within the Library and Information Technology Association. She collaborated with four other librarians in South Carolina on an ILEAD USA grant funded project to develop the Find Your Hat website, which reviews 50 different free or low cost technology tools and how they can be used in libraries.

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