Exploring the differences of technology use in schools and libraries across the country, this book describes ways that these two institutions can collaborate to improve teaching and learning while building communities. It investigates how technologies are implemented and the lessons that institutions can learn from one another.

Why have libraries and schools - both public institutions committed to community-based learning - adopted new technologies in dramatically different ways? Exploring the differences of technology use in schools and libraries across the country, the authors describe ways that these two institutions can collaborate to improve teaching and learning while building communities. With a focus on literacy development, they investigate how new technologies are implemented and the lessons that institutions can learn from one another.