This document identifies needed short-term improvements in the technology of Seattle Public Library and presents a plan to fill those needs. The capital plan anticipates longer term solutions, and the technology plan will be updated as current action areas are accomplished. The capital plan operating costs include an allocation to maintain the improved infrastructure installed during the two-year action plan. Introduction Technology is a great equalizer. Resources formerly only available at one location are now available at all libraries, in homes and offices.
Technology extends service.
For example, students working on lastminute assignments can connect by modem or Internet to the Library at 2 a.m. Technology dramatically leverages resources. While one person looks at the print version of a timely article on El Ni o, a hundred others can view the same article simultaneously on-line. Technology is incredibly current. Technology, in short, gives opportunity to all.