Following the completion of its first phase of automation (the creation of a bookstock and membership database and the creation of a county-wide network linking all branch libraries to the central database), Clare County Library assumed full responsibility for all its Information Technology requirements in 1997. Staff of Clare County Library's own IT Department have been responsible since then for the maintenance and development of all of its Information Technology requirements, from software to hardware, from servers, firewalls and routers, to PCs, the county-wide network and the library website. The library also delivers two and a half times the national average of Internet sessions to the public.

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Data dodania wpisu: 30-01-2007

Słowa kluczowe: Clare County Library developed its own IT department from existing resources, following automation. No extra staff were recruited. Library IT staff taught and trained themselves, and four have studied for and achieved professional qualifications in IT.