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.
Book Babble: http://www.bigbookbabble.co.uk
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.