1. Fall 2012
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2. The Question
According to School Library Journal survey data
• Only 29% of elementary libraries have eBook access
now.
• 82% expect to have eBook access within five years.
Our own survey data show that 89% of our customers
expect to spend 30% of their budgets on digital
purchases within the next two years.
How will libraries move from here to there?
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3. The Digital Shift
Limiting factors to The Digital Shift
•Market confusion
•Complex or proprietary implementations
•Fear of orphan products
•Perception of “sticking your neck out”
•Unclear who in the school is responsible
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4. Library digital products for success
IF the goals of a digital implementation are:
• To reduce the places students go for information.
• To invigorate the library.
• To make the library the hub of all learning and
thinking.
• To satisfy requests from students, parents and staff
• To not lock into an orphan or proprietary technology.
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5. Digital Success
Than please consider the following as it relates to
implementing digital library products.
• ALL Digital products purchased by the library should include
MaRC records.
• ALL resources including digital should be loaded into the
ALREADY existing and functional tool that everyone uses for
finding resources… the library catalog.
• Stay away from platforms that hold the items you BUY and
require you to continue using them to access YOUR eBooks.
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6. Managing Digital
Libraries are already set up to
manage digital… AND it is the
same method we use for books.
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7. Digital products, the
Capstone way
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8. WHAT
• OVER 2000 interactive titles
• The #1 elementary database, PebbleGO
• Live voice audio
• Text highlighting
• Easy to use and implement

9. HOW
• Work on a computer or mobile devices
• MaRC records to support access
• Easy access
• Home and School Access
• 24/7/365 multi-user
• UNLIMITED SITE LICENCE – multiuser
– ONE COPY, FOR THE WHOLE SCHOOL!

10. WHY?
• The WHY of Capstone
– WE CREATE AWESOME READING EXPERENCES!
– WE CARE ABOUT OUR CUSTOMERS AND BELIEVE
WHAT THEY ARE DOING MAKES THE WORLD
BETTER
– LIBRARIANS CAN TRUST CAPSTONE CONTENT

11. WHY?
• The WHY of Capstone Digital
– We want to meet kids where they are! (digital
natives, mobile, interested in learning)
– We believe libraries are about finding, analyzing
and critically thinking about information, true
learning. They are not warehouses for books
– FREE YOURSELF TO ENGAGE KIDS, not be
exclusively about the circulation of books

12. Capstone Interactive Library

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17. SPECIAL ON NOW!
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19. PebbleGo Animals

20. PebbleGo Animals - Content

21. Animals – Content Map
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22. PebbleGo Earth and Space

23. Earth and Space – Game Example

24. Earth and Space – Content Map
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25. Biographies

26. Sample Article
Video link
Citation
link
Timeline link

27. PebbleGo Social Studies (NEW)
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28. PebbleGo Social Studies

29. All Databases Feature
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30. Questions and Discussion
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