Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Professional ideas from February 7 ISLN meeting

Professional ideas that were discussed at the February 7 ISLN meeting: 

iPad app group and networking. See Ben if you'd like to join the group for a Friday, February 25 meeting. Email him if you're interested. 

PD spotlight
Follett 
  Destiny app now in the apple store. They have also submitted a Follett eReader app which may be available soon. They are also developing a down-loadable audio program.  Stay tuned for more.

Civica
  They have sent around a flyer sponsoring a big competition "A Night in the Library". They are a library management system that can read and process many languages 

Library 2.0: www.library20.com 
  The site has very dynamic videos for professional development.

  The site has author interviews that are retroactive 

"Why books" by Mo Willems from Horn Book. A good article that talks about why we need books.

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