iACCESSThere Is An App For That

Marian and Gerald Logan

Your future patrons and many of your current ones will never fill out a paper survey. Try this one……

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Gather Data

Public Libraries have done a great job of catering to their clients.

Public Libraries have kept up with the times……. School libraries have not………

Reason: Librarians

Grande Prairie Public Library

Who Are Your PatronsGPPL’s patrons

12000 Active patrons250 000 visits last year9000 eBooks circulated last yearOn schedule for 13 000 this year

(yes everyone received an iPad or Kindle for Christmas)

Who Are Your PatronsGPPL’s patrons

125 000 web site hitsFrom: Computers?

Smartphones?eReaders?

Base your website on HTML5 not Adobe Flash

Adobe has announced it will end support for Flash on mobile devices

HTML 5 Demo

Many developers are moving to this because it is a standard not a closed source application. Development software has no Adobe license fees.

The Apps (finally)

TRAC app: The The Regional Automation Consortium’s library search app.

The Apps

Overdrive The The Regional Automation Consortium’s electronic book solution.

Other Sources

Project Gutenberg38 000 copyright free

ebooksVarious formats

Other Sources

Project Gutenberg Canada

Canadian copyright free ebooks

Fewer formatsFrench and Engish

Other Sources

Open Library

The Apps

iBooks

The Apps

Kindle

The Apps

Toy Story This is the best ebook I have found for children.

You can read itIt will read the story to youIt can record you reading the story

The Apps

Flipbook an accumulator from the digital world. Very Current

The Apps

Google: This app is limited compared to the desktop site.

Most interesting is the voice and googles search

The Apps

History Maps

The Apps

Dictionary Everyone needs a good dictionary, this one is light and it is free.

The Apps

GTN Gateway To NatureLocal

The Apps

French Resources

LL French

Fre-Eng Free

The Apps

OECD Factbook

The Apps

Qwiki a great app that scours the internet for items that fit your search term and turns it into a video

The Apps

Wikipedia You either love it or hate it. Regardless your patrons are using it. The format is not appealing.

Try Discover Wikibot

The Apps

QR CodesThey can do a lot of things.

Use QR Codes They can take your patrons to a

website.

Send an email to your information desk.

Read a message to you.

Map location

Use a variety of readers and scannersi-NigmaNEOreaderQRReader

QR Resources qrstuff.com

http://www.2learn.ca/web2/QRT.aspx

http://engageyourstudents.wikispaces.com

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