Marshall Breeding

Marshall Breeding, MA, is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. He writes the “Systems Librarian” column which appears in Computers in Libraries, is the editor for ALA’s Smart Libraries Newsletter, and has authored the annual “Library Systems Report” in American Libraries since 2014 and in Library Journal from 2002-2013. He has written fourteen issues of ALA’s Library Technology Reports, and has edited or authored eight books, including Cloud Computing for Libraries (Neal-Schuman, 2012).

Appendixes

• Appendix 28.1: Major Library Software Products

• Appendix 28.2: Cloud Computing Technologies

• Appendix 28.3: Examples of New Generation of Resource Discovery Tools Patron Portals

• Appendix 28.4: Essential Competencies for Technology Managers

• Appendix 28.5: Job Titles Requiring Expertise in Computing Models