How to take your school library 'out of hours'

1. Accessing information outside your library walls
By Caroline roche, Ma, Mclip
advanced Lead practitioner
The Mobile Library
Email:carolineroche1@hotmail.co.uk Twitter: @HeartOTSchool

2. Diigo
• Diigo is an online bookmark service. You can access your bookmarks
online from any computer, or your Apple or Android phone
• Diigo is a social tool – you can befriend others and search their
bookmarks as well
• You can make up lists for your students so they don’t have to trawl
through Google, but have a ready-made list to which you and staff
contribute, which you can embed on the VLE
• You can have a collective account for sixth form pupils where they save
and share bookmarks with each other – independent learning.
• There are other online bookmark services, like Delicious, but Diigo is the
most versatile
• If you tweet, Diigo will save any URL’s of favourited tweets for you
automatically

3. A Diigo page

4. Dropbox and Box.net
• Dropbox is a way of sharing documents quickly and
easily
• Dropbox is an app for phones as well, so documents can
be uploaded there too
• You can have shared Dropboxes with different people for
different purposes
• Box.net is another way of sharing documents freely with
others
• You can embed a widget on your website, and people can
download documents from there

5. Dropbox and Diigo

6. Evernote
Evernote can sync to both your IPad and your IPhone or Android

7. Evernote
You can send photos from your Android or Iphone
directly to Evernote
You can also dictate messages to Evernote using an
app
This way you can take photos at an art exhibition,
say, and voice recordings, and send them straight to
Evernote
This will be stored in a folder along with your other
notes.
Notes can be emailed to others through Evernote

8. Evernote on the computer.

9. Uses for Evernote
You can use Evernote as a personal webclipper and
storage space for all documents
Evernote will integrate with Outlook so you can save
emails.
You can quickly use the Evernote clipper whenever
you are on a webpage to save the whole page, or to
highlight text and save only that
The original link to the webpage is retained so you
can go back and check for referencing purposes

10. Free ebook content
There are many sources
of free ebooks
Project Gutenberg for
copies of out of copyright
books. Includes QR code
for free installation of
app on your phone
You can also create your
own Google Scholar
page, and download the
books to your phone

11. Building an e-library
Links can be put on your
VLE to extend the library
‘walls’
You can subscribe to
online journals through
JSTOR or Gale
You can subscribe to
Essential Articles
through Carel Press
You can buy ebooks from
Rising Stars

12. QR codes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW032sKtj8
Take a look at how innovative Librarian Sarah Pavey uses QR codes in her
library: http://www.netvibes.com/boxhillschool#Referencing
%2FPresentation
•She also uses them on displays, linked to a survey, or a video of the author
•She uses them on shelves, giving lists of books on that shelf
•She adds them to covers of books on the Carnegie shortlist (and other reading
lists) linking to a video of the author talking about that book
•She adds them to posters to link to a video
•QR code readers can be freely and easily be downloaded to an Iphone or an
Android phone. Some good apps are called QR Reader, Code Scan or BeeTag

13. Further Reading
How my students started using Evernote: Buffy Hamilton
http://blog.evernote.com/2011/01/05/how-my-students-started-using-
evernote-education-series/
QR codes wiki, with lots of examples of successful use:
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=QR_Codes
Video of QR codes being used in a school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ayW032sKtj8