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Many of the resources available in this summary and in the key resources below have come out of the Rural Library Sustainability Project and Project Continuum. Explore and contribute to the growing community of practice for rural libraries. Consider this your "sandbox" for playing with Technology and please, add your own toys!

Resources for Exploring Technology

• Technology Support/Connections Brainstorm and Upgrade and Maintenance Brainstorm with lots of great ideas from your rural colleagues.
• Technology: WebJunction's comprehensive area to address all your technology needs.
• MaintainIT Cookbooks for all aspects of maintaining public access computing.
• WebJunction Pathfinder: Wireless Networking for Libraries
• TechAtlas - Technology Planning Tools
• TechSoup Stock for Libraries: Low-cost software and technology products made available only to libraries.

Action Planning for Technology

• Action Planning Worksheet From the Rural Library Sustainability Project Workshops.
• Technology Support Action Plan Template and  Upgrade and Maintenance Action Plan Template
• Tools for Planning Webinar and Quick Links: Archive of rural webinar focused on action planning methods.

Online Learning for Technology

• WebJunction's Course Catalog: Provides numerous courses designed for staff learning about technology.
• Rural In Focus Webinars and other upcoming or archived Webinars on WebJunction exploring many technology topics important to the work of sustaining rural and small libraries.

What are your Tools for Technology?

• Rural Technology Discussions as well as those in the many Technology topics across WebJunction.
• Contribute to WebJunction by posting your ideas, methods, and templates.
• Email rural@webjunction.org