1. INTEGRATING IPADS Rebecca K.
Miller
AND Heather
TABLET COMPUTERS Moorefield-
Lang
INTO LIBRARY Carolyn Meier
SERVICES, PART II March 15,
201 2

2. OVERVIEW OF WEBINAR, PART II
March 15, 201 2
 Case studies and practical applications from:
 An art library
 K-12 school libraries
 Academic libraries and other academic organizations
 A public library
 Using tablets to work with collection development and reference
 Apps:
 Art-based apps
 Productivity apps
 School and study -based apps
 Scanning and Flash tools
 Higher education and research apps
 Staying up to date on apps, tablets, and other technology tools

3. The Way it
Was
Courtesy of www.istockphoto.com

4. The Way
it Is
Image courtesy of Montlieu Academy of Technology

5. PRACTICAL
APPLICATION: Virginia Tech
ART + ARCHITECTURE Blacksburg, VA
LIBRARY

6. VT
A + A LIBRARY

7. PROGRAM OVERVIEW
20 iPads in the Art Aimed at art and
and Arch library arch industrial
Circulate to design students.
undergrads for 4 They use them the
days with 1 renewal most.
Faculty have 5 days
with option for more

8. TOOLS
Come with two Social Media
dozen apps FlipBoard
Dropbox Instapaper
Evernote Other design style
Files HD tools
PDF Readers
Other Basic Tools

10. Accessories

12. Stylus

14. OUTCOME
 Wished they had taken more advantage of playing it up more
 Advertising more
 Publishing more
 They have iPad 1 , people want 2 (and now, New iPad)
 Missed opportunity that they are still working with and getting
situated.

15. QUICK POLL
What type of apps do you use the most?
A. Nook/Kindle/Reading Apps
B. Other entertainment (movies, games)
C. Communication (social media, etc.)
D. Productivity (note-taking, calendar)
E. Other

16. ART-BASED APPS

17. ART HD

18. MOMA

19. NCMA RODIN

20. ORGANIZERS/
NOTETAKING APPS

21. PAPERPORT NOTES

22. PENULTIMATE

23. MINDNODE

24. DROPBOX - FREE

25. IANNOTATE

26. EVERNOTE

27. NOTES

28. PRACTICAL APPLICATION:
Charlottesville,
CHARLOTTESVILLE VA
SCHOOLS

29. WHAT THEY HAVE
 Fujitsu 580 Tablets (Lifebook)
 Windows 7
 Full Computer in a Tablet form
 Every student 6-12 grade in the school system

30. STRATEGIC PLAN
Started planning in Teachers received
2009 tablets in Summer,
Decided to adopt 2011 for training
tablets instead of Students received
textbooks. tablets in December,
Had two committees 2011
textbook and tablets

31. WHAT ARE THEY USED FOR?
Physics: Doing Math: Handwriting
experiments: Probes features
attached to tablets Music: All types of
Library: When music apps. Vocal
French delegation parts on the tablets.
was visiting, Courses for virtual
students and high school
librarian were
researching
Government: Polling

32. CHALLENGES
 Earthquake in Japan set orders back. Always have a back up
plan.
 Set your deadline out. If you think it will arrive in December
tell everyone it will be January just to be safe.
 Gain additional funding if you can.
 Internet access for all students.

33. SCHOOL AND STUDY-
BASED APPS

34. BLOOM‟S TAXONOMY FOR IPADS AND
TABLETS
Find this image on the web:
http://www.schrockguide.net
/bloomin-apps.html
Used with permission from Kathy Schrock

35. STUDY BLUE

36. SCIENCE 360

37. PLEASE TOUCH THE EXHIBIT

38. LEAF SNAP

39. EXPLORER: AMERICAN NATURAL
HISTORY MUSEUM

40. WORLD BOOK – THIS DAY IN HISTORY

41. NOOK

42. KINDLE

43. OVERDRIVE

44. ZITE

45. Newman
PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Library
Virginia Tech
IPAD LIBRARY TOUR Blacksburg, VA

46. VT
NEWMAN LIBRARY

47. TOURS
 Five iPads that can be checked out at the library
circulation desk for library tours
 Screencasts on each section of the library
 Numbered QR Barcodes linked to screencasts
 Barcodes are scannable
 iPad scans code and tells student about that part of
the library
 Beautiful in its simplicity

50. SET UP
Initial tours done in other universities relied
on student‟s personal devices to scan the QR
barcodes.
When iPad 1 came out we waited for 2. Knew
that a camera would be on it.
Tour has become very popular. Students like
being able to tour at their convenience.

51. SCAN AND FLASH TOOLS

52. RED LASER

53. SCAN

54. PHOTON FLASH BROWSER

55. PRACTICAL APPLICATION:
MORE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES

56. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSIT Y
LIBRARIES
Laptops and Amazon Kindles,
Netbooks Sony Readers and
I Pads Barnes & Nobles'
Ipods Nooks.
Digital Cameras and Wacom Intuous4
Camcorders and Bamboo Fun
Graphic Tablets
Voice Recorders
For more info see:
Portable DVD http://www.lib.ncsu.edu
players /techlending/

57. UNIVERSIT Y OF UTAH: HEALTH SCIENCES
LIBRARY
They Lend:  Two week checkout
 3 Xooms  Short survey about
device
 6 Kindles
 Likes and dislikes
 3 Nooks B&W
 Apps explored and
 3 Nooks Color
preferences
 3 iPads
 Using the devices for
 For more info see assessment to see what
http://library.med.utah.edu
/or/technologies.php
should be purchased for
the future.

58. UNIVERSIT Y OF ARIZONA
They Lend:
•Lenovo Think Pads
•iPads
•iPad Keyboards
•Various Laptops

59. WORKING WITH IPADS IN
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

60. COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

61. COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: BENTO
(DATABASE PROGRAM)

62. ROVING REFERENCE
• Logistics?
• Apps?
• What happens to the reference
desk?

63. IDEAS FROM THE LITERATURE…
 Roving reference can take place inside the library or of fsite,
within another building entirely
 Roving reference can augment library services in a variety of
library environments
 Of fsite: Mobility and convenience for students and faculty
 Within the library: Being proactive in reaching out to students
 Ease and convenience for librarians
 Users‟ ability to identify rovers
 Communication with other staf f members

64. THE LITERATURE
 B r o w n , C . , S u l z , D . , a n d Po w, V. ( 2 01 1 , A u g u s t ) . Ro v i n g r e f e r e n c e w i t h i P a d s : A
s t u d y o f t h e u s e o f i P a d s a s te c h n o l o g ic a l s u p p o r t a n d s e r v i c e a s s e s s m e n t . P a p e r
p r e s e n te d a t t h e a n n u a l c o n f e r e n c e o f t h e I n te r n a t i o n a l Fe d e r a t i o n o f L i b r a r y
A s s o c i a t io n s , S a n J u a n , P u e r to R i c o . Ret r i eve d f r o m
h t t p : / / c o n fe r e nc e . i fl a .o r g / p a s t / i fl a 77 / 1 97 - b row n - e n . p d f
 C o u r to i s , M . a n d L i r i a n o , M . ( 2 0 0 0 ) . T i p s f o r r o v i n g r e f e r e n c e : H o w to b e s t s e r v e
l i b r a r y u s e r s . C o l l e g e & R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s N e w s , 61 ( 4 ) : 2 8 9 - 9 0 , 31 5 .
 Fo r s y t h , E . ( 2 0 0 9 ) . Fa n c y w a l k i e - t a l k i es , S t a r Tr e k c o m m un i ca to r s , o r r o v i n g
r e f e r e n c e? Au s t r a l i a n L i b r a r y J o u r n a l , 5 8 ( 1 ) : 7 3 - 8 4 . Ret r i ev e d f r o m
h t t p : / / w w w. a l ia . o r g . a u/pub l i s h i n g / al j / 5 8 / A L J _ Fe b 2 0 0 9 _ Vo l5 8 _ N1 _ we b. pdf # pa g e = 7
4
 H o l m e s , C . a n d Wo z n i c ki , L . ( 2 01 0 ) . L i b r a r i a n s a t yo u r d o o r s te p : Ro v i n g r e f e r e n c e
a t To w s o n U n i v e r s i t y. C o l l e g e & R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s N e w s , 71 ( 1 1 ) : 5 8 2 - 5 8 5 .
Ret r i eve d f r o m h t t p : / / c r l n .a c r l .o r g / c o n te n t / 71 / 1 1 / 5 8 2 .f ul l
 L o t t s , M . a n d G r av e s , S . ( 2 01 1 ) . U s i n g t h e i P a d f o r r e f e r e n c e s e r v i c e s : L i b r a r i a n s
g o m o b i le . C o l l e g e & R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s N e w s , 7 2 ( 4 ) : 217 - 2 2 0 . Ret r i ev e d f r o m
h t t p : / / c r ln . a c r l .o r g / c on te n t / 7 2 / 4 / 217. f ull
 S m i t h , M . A . a n d P i et r a s z ew s k i , B . A . ( 2 0 0 4 ) . E n a b l i n g t h e r o v i n g r e f e r e n c e
l i b r a r i a n : w i r e l e s s a c c e s s w i t h t a b l et P C s . R e f e r e n c e S e r v i c e s R ev i e w, 3 2 ( 3 ) : 24 9 -
255

65. PRACTICAL APPLICATION:
Virginia Tech
INNOVATION SPACE Blacksburg, VA
(HIGHER EDUCATION)

66. VT
INNOVATION SPACE

67. WHAT IS INNOVATION SPACE
Multimedia computer lab open to students,
faculty, and staff of Virginia Tech, as well as
the local general public.
Mission of providing assistance through free
and open access to software, hardware, and
specially-trained staff.

68. Images from
http://www.is.vt.edu

69. HOW THEY ARE CIRCULATING IPADS
144 iPads to check out for class sets
Keep those for a semester

70. HOW ARE THE PADS BEING USED
 Critical reading over  PDF Annotators
the traditional  Think about how
textbook students read and
 iThoughts HD for annotate
Concept Mapping  Dropbox and Evernote
 They are very are very big
physical, very tactile  Tagging and how
 Not a whiteboard students tag is very
 Not a mouse interesting as well
 They are in the
student‟s hands

71. MORE USAGES
Professors are using E-reader usage
audio features for MBA program at
grading Virginia Tech, every
Penultimate lets student gets an iPad
professors write
note to students.
Speak Notes and
other apps let you
record notes to
students

72. HIGHER ED AND
RESEARCH DATABASE
APPS

73. BIBLION

74. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

75. REFERENCE

76. IEEE XPLORER

77. JSTOR

78. OPENING PDF‟S

79. MEDLINEPLUS

80. WORLDCAT

81. EBSCOHOST

82. GALE - AML
COLLEGE VERSION

83. GALE - AML
COLLEGE VERSION

84. GALE - AML
COLLEGE VERSION

85. Montlieu
PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Academy of
Technology
PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY High Point, NC

86. Image courtesy of Montlieu Academy of Technolog

87. GRANT
Montlieu: Given half a million dollars for all of
their students, approximately 430 students, to
have an iPad.
They stay at school. But next year 4 th and 5 th
will get to take them home.
Teachers each got an iPad and a Mac Book
Pro as well as cart for charging
Tech Person hired for training

88. Image courtesy of Montlieu Academy of Technology

89. EXAMPLES
 Facetime to read  Letters Learning for
books from another Letters
room  Doodle Buddy for
 Facetime to speak to letters
class when teacher is  Take screenshots of
not at school that day work to show parents
 Digital pen pals using for parent/teacher
Facetime with other conferences
schools across the
country or world

90. APPS & CONTENT
Rocket Math for Cutting and pasting
math skills skills
Communication by e- Safari/Internet
mail for parents. searching skills
Concept mapping Parents are learning
tools too from their
Puppet Pals for children
StoryTelling

91. FOR TEACHERS
Meet every quarter and share apps. Have to
“sell” your app. The best apps get purchased
for the educators.
Teacher Pal: Seating arrangements, picture of
the child, information on each child. Very
useful for substitutes.
Differentiated instruction for the children. 21 st
Century learning skills and Technology skills
for the teachers.

92. PRACTICAL APPLICATION:
MORE PUBLIC LIBRARIES

93. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS:
IN-HOUSE PUBLIC LIBRARY USE
Houston Public Library
Program specifics:
 Starting January 2011 , 3 iPads available
to enhance “early literacy stations”
 Children (accompanied by a 14+ year
old) can check out for 1 hour
 Includes educational apps to aid in “literacy and
mathematical development”
 Article available:
http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Houston -
libraries-want-preschoolers-to-check-out-1689013.php

94. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS:
IN-HOUSE PUBLIC LIBRARY USE
 North Shore Public Library, NY
Program Specifics
 8 iPads
 Checked out to patrons with a library card
 Can be used anywhere in the library
 To replace children‟s gaming computers
 Internet connectivity cut off
 Use Children‟s Technology Review ( http://childrenstech.com/) to
find relevant apps
Information from
http://sclsyouthser vices.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/ipads -
replace-desktop-computers-at-north-shore-public-library/

95. WHERE DO YOU GET ALL OF THESE APPS?
 For iPad, iPod touch and iPhone – App store on iTunes
 For Android
 Amazon App store
 Android Market
 Blackberry App World
 Some websites will also have an app to download
 Build your own…

96. BASIC NEEDS FOR APP DEVELOPMENT
 Although this webinar will not focus on building apps, if you‟re
interested in pursuing that, here are a few basic needs:
 Instructional or App Designers
 Graphic Artist/Programmers
 App Testers if budget will allow or the rest of the team can
test app.
 Rubrics or standards to test the app
 Subjects to try out the app

97. APP STORE

98. AMAZON STORE

99. HOW TO MAKE A SAFARI BOOKMARK ON
SCREEN

100. HOW TO ORGANIZE ICONS IN FOLDERS
Drop one icon on top
of the other
iPad will
automatically name
it

101. QUICK POLL
How do you stay up to date on technology,
tablets, and apps?
A. Social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs)
B. Professional publications
C. Conferences and workshops
D. Listservs
E. All of the above!

102. WHERE TO READ ABOUT NEW APPS
 Higher Ed Blogs  Apple blogs
 Professor Hacker  Apple Gazette
 Center for Learning and  The Unofficial Apple
Performance Technologies Weblog
 Cult of Mac
 The Apple Blog
 Mobile Learning
 Edible Apple
 Apple „n apps
 JK on the run
 iPad insight
 World of Apple
 Just another iPad blog
 Upside Learning blog
 Marc Prensky‟s weblog
 Endgadget

103. OTHER RELEVANT BLOGS
 Android blogs
 Androinica
 Android and me
 Android guys
 Hello Android
 IM Android tabletsinlibraries.tumblr.com
 Blackberry Blogs
 Inside Blackberry
 Crackberry.com
 Blackberry blog
 BlackBerry Beat

104. FINAL Q&A
 What final questions can we answer for you?
 We‟ll answer as many questions as time permits, then follow
up on our Tumblr and/or the ALA TechSource blog afterwards.
 More tablet projects from Rebecca, Carolyn, and Heather…

105. REFERENCES: PART II
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106. CREDITS & THANKS, PART II
 Angela Caldwell: Kindergar ten Teacher, Montlieu Academy of
Technology
 Neal Henshaw, Classroom Manager, University Libraries,
Virginia Tech
 Maria Lewis (Coordinator for Technology Integration) and Anne
Evans (Coordinator for Histor y and Social Sciences),
Charlottesville Schools
 Jennifer Sparrow: Director of Emerging Technologies &
New Ventures, InnovationSpace
 Patrick Tomlin: Ar t and Architecture Librarian, University
Libraries, Virginia Tech