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As the year rounds out this week, it’s time to reflect on some of the most noteworthy apps from 2015. The week after the holidays is a high traffic time in libraries for new tablet owners wanting ebook assistance and app recommendations.

One of the most thorough previews for the year was The Guardian’s 10 Children’s App Trends for 2015. A thoughtful piece for parents on what’s on the horizon for storytelling, music creation, and 3D printing apps for kids.

The annual KAPi (Kids at Play Interactive) Awards honor the best in interactive media for children. The winners for 2016 will be announced in late December and honored in January. The app winners are broken down into Best Children’s App for Pre-readers and Best Children’s App for Older Children. One app to own is Crazy Gears from the developer Seven Academy who came out with last year’s Busy Shapes. Both apps invite experimentation and critical thinking for pre-readers, as well as parental engagement for its complexity.

Speaking of adult engagement, Apple announced its top apps for 2015 which included Elementary Minute, a perfect challenge for Quiz Bowl kids and Geography Bee enthusiasts.

What are some of your most loved apps of this past year? Please share!

Claire Moore is a member of the Digital Content Task Force. She is also Head of Children and Teen Services at Darien Library in Connecticut. You can reach Claire at [email protected].

Visit the Digital Media Resources page to find out more about navigating your way through the evolving digital landscape.

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Have you noticed a spike in eBook circulation this summer? At our library we have hopes and dreams of seeing an increase in our eCirculation, not solely during an intense reading period, but throughout the school year. There is no question that an increase wouldn’t just be dependent on patrons having knowledge of the library’s eCollection, but also their access and ease of use, both for parents and kids.

In the spring the teen department and children’s library decided to debut an e-Reading Room through Overdrive. The purpose of the offering is to provide youth with a safe and kid-friendly environment in which to browse the library’s eCollection. Bringing increased exposure to our digital collection is one of our continued goals in the department, both for kids and teens, but making it a lot easier to search and download may be a lot more difficult than simply creating a virtual kids’ space.

Has this ever occurred at your library? All 5 copies of a certain book are checked out and you happen to find the one copy available and it’s an eBook. The patron is ecstatic and you proceed to shown them the process for searching, downloading, and reading the eBook. At some point in the transaction you notice the glazed look in their eyes and hope that when they go home they actually succeed in getting the title. I’m speaking mostly about parents and caregivers, but this can be amplified even more if we are speaking of a child.

Thankfully a few libraries around the country are on mission to make this process a bit easier for everyone!

Library Simplified is a collection of organizations with the goal of making the eBorrowing process less complex, especially as the importance of digital materials continues to increase within libraries. Another plan is to give libraries the ability to offer collections from all their eBook vendors through one application. The promise is 3 Clicks or Less, which would be a dream come true.

American Libraries, in their eContent Digital Supplement put out an article about the Library Simplified project entitled, Click, Click, Read: Building a library-owned delivery channel for eBooks. Personally, I’m looking forward to the progress that Library Simplified has made and continues to make in the eBook world. Hopefully that progress is a bit quicker than the time it’ll take you to download your next eBook from the library’s collection!

What steps has your library taken recently to make accessing eBooks a bit more seamless for your young patrons?

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Claire Moore is a member of the Digital Content Task Force. She is the Head of Teen and Children’s Services at Darien Library in Darien, CT.  For further questions, please contact at [email protected]. For more information check out the Digital Media Resources page on the ALSC website.

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Galactic Hot Dogs, that is! Cosmoe’s Weiner Getaway is the first book in a three part series written by Max Brallier and published by Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

The book has taken off on Funbrain.com, a popular gaming website for children that has been a launch pad for some of the biggest blockbuster hits in children’s book publishing. Jeff Kinney’s ever popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid got its start there as a free book in 2004 and now has over 150 million copies in print.

Other titles such as Rachel Renee Russell’s Dork Diaries series, Lincoln Pierce’s Big Nate and Brandon Mull’s best-selling fantasy series The Beyonders all of gaining wider audiences due to their popularity on Funbrain and its sister site Poptropica.

Galactic Hot Dogs seems to be destined for the same success. More than six million children have read the book on Funbrain since its debut in the fall of 2013 when individual chapters were posted. What sets this apart is that more than a million children have played the story-based Galactic Hot Dogs game that went live on Poptropica two months ago. Like many books that are popular on the site, it appeals to 8- to 12-year-olds who appreciate its kooky hero, Cosmoe, and its humorous, comic-strip-style illustrations.

Recently, multiplatform books with online gaming components have become essential tools in the children’s book publishing industry. They are clearly seeking to reach young readers who are migrating to digital and mobile reading. Sixty-seven percent of children between the ages of 2 and 13 read e-books, according to a report released in January by Digital Book World and PlayCollective, up from 54 percent in 2012.

While many fear that sites such as Poptropica and Funbrain might detract from reading time, authors and publishers clearly seem to think differently. Some publishers have found that interactive games can increase print sales rather than erode them. Scholastic’s multiplatform game and book series, 39 Clues, which started in 2008, has more than 17 million copies in print.

Clearly there is core audience for this new books to gaming crossover market and they are buying the print books. I think this is definitely the next “big” thing in the children’s digital world.

Allison Santos

ALSC Digital Task Force

Director, Princeton Children’s Book Festival

Princeton Public Library, NJ

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The audiobooks in your library’s digital collection are easy to access from computers, tablets, iPods and smartphones. As you build and market the collection, keep in mind the different ways that children and families use audiobooks, and select titles to meet a variety of needs.

Preschool children may be drawn to the stories and characters of their favorite picture books. Think carefully about how the text will play without the pictures that help tell the story. You’ll also want to take checkout limits into consideration. Collections of multiple books, like Green Eggs and Ham and Other Servings of Dr. Seuss, and early chapter books like Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! may be more attractive to borrowers than a title which only lasts a few minutes.

Families listening together need titles that appeal to everyone. Stories like The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher include characters of multiple ages. Parents listening with older children will find a lot to talk about in nonfiction like The Port Chicago 50.

Children who have their own tablet or iPod can download and listen independently. For older elementary kids, having what they want the first time they look is crucial. Order at least once a week and pre-order when you can, so that your homepage shows the freshest new titles and you always have the latest books in their favorite series.

What are your secrets for building a great e-audio collection? Please share them in the comments.

Rachel

This month’s blog post by Rachel Wood, ALSC Digital Content Task Force

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I’ll confess, like many of you I collect apps. I have an old tablet devoted to nothing but “kid” apps. Finding information about a variety of book apps is relatively easy now that so many of us are using them and reviewing them. One question I am asked frequently is “Can you recommend any assistive technology apps?”

There are several that have caught my eye recently so I decided to give them a try. I was impressed with the continued growth and development of these types of applications. There are many people, both young and old that could benefit greatly from using these simple programs. All the apps mentioned are intuitive, easy to use, some have a nominal fee and others are free.

Kidspiration Maps is a kid friendly mind-mapping app for the iPad. Kidspiration is similar to the Inspiration Maps, but Kidspiration includes more kid friendly templates and clipart like graphics. Kidspiration allows users to create mind mapping webs to help organize ideas and information visually. Unlike Inspiration Maps, Kidspiration allows users to insert a large variety of clipart images into their maps. Kidspiration also includes the ability to add a recorded voice note; a feature that is unfortunately missing in Inspiration Maps.

Kidspiration Maps includes a large number of pre-loaded templates for reading and writing, social studies, science, and math. These templates are geared for elementary school children and range from an “all about me” web to sorting and matching activities. If no template is applicable there is an option to start a new document. One template contains a number of words and instructions to arrange the words into alphabetical order while another asks kids to match states to their capitals. With the nice visuals these activities can be engaging and easier than using physical manipulative. One drawback is when the student is completing the activities there is no way to program the correct responses in order to give the student immediate feedback. Also, when searching for clipart students cannot search for an image by keyword, but instead must scroll through long lists of images.

Bookshare is an essential service for people with print disabilities. Bookshare.org provides accessible e-books for qualified students. Members can choose from over 200,000 downloadable titles including many textbooks. Bookshare books can be downloaded in a DAISY format for use with text-to-speech software or in a Braille format. Similar to Kurzweil, the combination of text-to-speech and highlighted text can greatly speed up and reading and increase comprehension for qualifying students. Thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Education Bookshare is free to U.S. students.

 Learning Ally is another provider of accessible books for the blind and dyslexic.Learning Ally mostly provides human narrated audio books for their members. Learning Ally is also expanding to provide “VOICEtext” books which include human narration and highlighted text. The highlighting of “VOICEtext” books is not word by word like in Bookshare and Kurzweil but rather is paragraph by paragraph. Learning Ally books can be read on iOS and Android devices using the Learning Ally Audio app.

 Co:Writer by Don Johnston is an app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Co:Writer has exceptional word predication capabilities that can help struggling spellers. Co:Writer’s most unique and noteworthy feature is the ability to use topic dictionaries to improve word prediction based on the topic a student is writing about. For example, if a student is writing about World War II he or she can turn on the World War II topic dictionary in order to get more targeted word prediction.

Prizmo is an optical character recognition (OCR) app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The app gives students the ability to take a picture of a text documents and have it read back to them using text-to-speech in seconds. So if a student comes across a document that they can’t read they can use Prizmo to quickly take a picture and have it read back to them. Prizmo can also act as a portable scanner that can convert printed document into a digital PDF format.

These were are just a few of the many assistive technology apps available. If you are using or recommending and other apps that fill this niche, send me an email and let me know: [email protected]

Allison Santos

ALSC Digital Task Force

Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ

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In June, when Simon & Schuster made their ebooks available only to libraries who agreed to add a “Buy It Now” option to their catalog, I was torn between two important promises libraries make to kids and families: we will do everything we can to get you the books you want, and everything we offer is free.

My library holds the line on keeping things free in many ways, even to the point of refusing to offer summer reading coupons that require an additional purchase to get that free ice cream cone. Parents value libraries as places where they know they can escape the relentless pressure to buy stuff, and our commitment to keep it so extends online.

But what happens when the trade-off is keeping popular titles out of our ebook collection? I was stumped. I spent the past few months not taking a stand, simply delaying. Looking askance at every detail of the program and trying to find a good way out of two bad choices.

So I’m thrilled now that the requirement is gone and I can welcome Simon & Schuster to our ebook offerings! Welcome Bunnicula, Olivia, Lucky, Caddie, Derek and Rush! Thanks to libraries who tried “Buy It Now” and those who didn’t and everyone who keeps lines of communication open and advocates for books and readers. Thanks Simon & Schuster for listening and being flexible and working with us to find the way.

Rachel

This month’s blog post by Rachel Wood, ALSC Digital Content Task Force & Materials Division Chief at Arlington (VA) Public Library.

We would love to hear from you. Please email us at [email protected].

Our Youth Services department recently underwent a freshening up. After reconfiguring our floor space and thinking about how it is used we decided to purchase several MacBook PROs for afterschool use. We had been circulating e-readers and tablets so this was a natural next step for us.

We made an initial purchase of eight laptops, and the kids went wild! We rolled out this new service a year ago and it has proven to be so popular that we had to invest in six more just to keep up with the demand.

So, how does this work you wonder? First, the laptops can only be used by children in grades 6-12^th in our Youth Services department, they never leave the library. All one needs is a library card in good standing, a valid student ID and they are ready to borrow one. We ask each child to read and sign an agreement form that clearly states out the laptops may be used and we take a moment to discuss the terms of the agreement.

Our staff quickly realized this was an excellent opportunity to have more interaction with the children who are borrowing them. Not only was this a great way to learn their names, we now have the chance to talk to them about school, books, movies, etc. while we are preparing their laptop for use.

Everyone who registers to use a laptop is entered into a database. If there is a behavior infraction while using a laptop it is noted in the database. With over a thousand users, we have had only a few issues. Remarkably, none of these laptops have been damaged in anyway.

Each laptop comes loaded with a variety of popular applications kids really want. iPhoto, Garage Band, iMovie and Scratch 1.4 are a few that are in frequent use. Also popular is Face Time and Photo Booth. One might think these laptops are being borrowed for social media and gaming purposes, but I mostly observe them being used as a vehicle for creativity.

Recently, we began to offer technology classes specifically geared to children in grades 4 and up. We’ve held classes featuring programs such as Garage Band and iMovie where children created their own music or movies. Other well attended sessions featured Raspberry Pi; the credit card sized computer that can connect to a television and a keyboard and has quite a bit of functionality for something so small and Ardunio; an open source electronics platform that makes building interactive objects, such as robots more accessible.

It’s interesting to see just how adept these young people are with these types of programs and how eager they are to learn even more. If you have reached out to this age group I am interested to hear what you are doing, what’s worked and what hasn’t. I am always looking for the next big thing to offer.

 Allison Santos, Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ
ALSC Digital Content Task Force

We usually think of our library’s online resources as homework help, but in summertime kids can use them to explore the topics they really love.

1. Animals- Who doesn’t love animals? Online encyclopedias include pictures and even video, along with articles on everything from aardvarks to zebras.

2. Places- Young travelers can find out about, or just plain find, destinations near and far in geography and history resources.

3. Celebrities- Whether they’re into sports, movies, or music, biography and news databases are keeping up with kids’ favorite stars.

4. Family- Tap genealogy resources to clarify the family tree when visiting relatives. Figure out who’s a third cousin and who’s a second cousin once removed or find great-grandma in the 1930 census.

5. Weird stuff- News sites just for kids include many stories of the bizarre. Is it true that an accountant fell on a crocodile? Look it up!

Have you tried marketing your databases for summer or used them in a program? We’d love to hear about it in the comments.

Blog post by Rachel Wood
Arlington Public Library
ALSC Digital Content Task Force

The ALSC Digital Content Task Force has been hard at work on the new Digital Media Resources page, a go-to list for children’s librarians. We’ve collected the best articles, blog posts and websites on the issues and research, apps and eBooks to help you navigate the digital frontier. Whether you’re recommending resources for parents, looking for new program ideas, or advocating for access, you’ll find something to help here. We’ll be updating the page regularly, so please be sure to send us your contributions!

Headed to ALA Annual in Las Vegas?

Please join us on Sunday from 1-2:30 in the Las Vegas Hotel for the Digital Content Task Force and Children and Technology Committee program: Whet Your APPetite: Rapid Reviews of Apps for Children from Preschool to Tweens. Allison Santos, Amy Graves, Cen Campbell, Claire Moore, Marianne Martens, and Paige Bentley-Flannery will showcase new and favorite apps and present ideas for how to use them in your library.

There’s lots more happening at ALA, check out these programs:

Saturday morning at 8:30, ALSC presents The Apps are All Right! Exploring the Role of Apps in Children’s and Teen Services.

Saturday at 1, OITP-ALA and Moving Ahead with Digital Content presents a chance to hear the Digital Content Working Group talk about eBook advocacy efforts so far and future directions, while the panel at ECRR 2.0: Using Apps and eBooks in Early Literacy Programs will discuss digital technology and the ECRR five practices.

The AASL will present this year’s list of Best Apps for Teaching and Learning on Saturday afternoon at 3.

And on Sunday afternoon at 3, you can find out how to get digital with Día at Dynamic Digital Día: Promoting Cultural Competence in Digital Storytimes.

Know of more great opportunities at Annual? Please share them in the comments!

Rachel

This month’s blog post by Rachel Wood, ALSC Digital Content Task Force (virtual committee)

We would love to hear from you. Please email us at [email protected].

Many libraries are now offering Hoopla, an innovative new service that gives you access to thousands of streaming movies and television, music, and audiobook titles, all for free. All you need is your customer is their library card to get started. This is proving to be a very popular service we are offering in my library since it is being widely used, but by adults.

What you may not know is Hoopla is an excellent resource for children’s materials too. I was delighted to find a wide assortment of fun and interesting titles for our youngest customers. Not only does Hoopla’s catalog offer classic titles in audiobooks and movies but current, recently released audiobooks and even movies that were in the theater just last year! Even more impressive is their children’s music collection. There were so many titles available, from story time favorites, Disney tunes and riffs on many popular “grown-up bands such as The Police, beach Boys and U-2. If you would like your little one to explore music from other cultures, Hoopla is your answer. Their catalog offers a wide array of world music offerings.

If you haven’t explored Hoopla, I don’t know what you are waiting for! Check it out, your customers will be in for a very pleasant surprise. Hoopla movies are offered on a streaming basis on your computer. You may also use an Apple or Android for access to Hoopla, you will have the option to download for offline access. Items that are downloaded are returned automatically at the end of the lending period. What’s the best part? No late fees! Please visit your mobile devices app store to download and install this free digital app today.

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Allison Santos, ALSC Digital Task Force,

Director; Princeton Children’s Book Festival, Princeton, NJ

Testing out displays that market eBook services

Many libraries that offer eBook collections may have seen steady growth over time, but there’s always room for increased ways to build the hype and use of digital collections. At my library there are still many families who are unaware that libraries even provide this service. The fact that returns are automatic, and that it makes traveling with kids much more carefree is enough to make some patrons prick up their ears. With kids, there are always opportunities to share that the library also has eBooks to check out. I find that young patrons are easily won over once they learn that even though #565 of their favorite series may not be on the physical shelf, there’s usually a digital copy ready to read.

In addition to patrons who own eReaders and other devices, it’s important not to ignore the kids in our communities who don’t have access to new technologies. Are we making these materials available for them to borrow or use within the space? This can be by circulating eReaders for in-house use, or having library computers ready for viewing digital content.

In terms of building awareness around your digital collections, here are some suggestions for making the seemingly intangible a bit more accessible.

Booklist of new eTitles

• Begin creating physical and virtual booklists of your most recent acquisitions. Adult patrons are always looking for grab and go selections for their young readers. With existing booklists, add an eBook logo which shows that the title is also available digitally.
• Host an event which highlights your library’s digital collection and market it to families. This past winter we held a Family Tech Night where we encouraged family members to bring their devices for individual tutorials. This also enabled us to highlight other services including Hoopla and Zinio which appeals to parents. The kids were excited to check out books on their devices, and in many cases were assisting the adults with downloading titles.
• Visit local schools throughout the year showcasing your library’s services, and include a plug for circulating eBooks. Encourage student groups to visit the library and discuss the various materials available for checkout. In our town, Scout Troops will often visit the public library to earn a tech badge. By centering the discussion on technology’s impact on literacy, we can discuss how reading has changed throughout history.
• Find ways to advertise eBook collections during Summer Reading events. Have “how to download” flyers on hand for families.
• Starting to circulate tablets in your library? Make sure to have all staff trained to troubleshoot how to download eBooks. Patrons may be checking out equipment primarily for app selections, but having them test drive eBooks is also a plus.
• Communicate to staff that incorporating eBook collections into readers’ advisory interactions is highly effective. Asking kids if they know that the library has eBooks, and physically taking them to view the online collection can have them instantly intrigued. Planning readers’ advisory programs for parents that focus on non-traditional collections such as app recommendations and eBook collections can help increase circulation and change the public’s perception of what the library offers.

Have you found unique ways to highlight your library’s eBook collection? Have you used social media outlets like Pinterest or Tumblr to reach your community? Please share your experiences below!

Claire Moore is a member of the Digital Content Task Force. She is also Head of Children’s Services at Darien Library in Connecticut. You can reach Claire at [email protected]. 

app photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery

April is National Poetry Month!

One of my favorite children’s poets, Jack Prelutsky has a new poetry app, The New Kid on the Block – interactive storybook of poems!  It’s based on his book, The New Kid on the Block and includes a collection of eighteen poems that will make you laugh out loud!  The app was created by Wanderful Interactive Storybooks and Living Books. 

To begin your poetry adventure, Click on either “Read to Me” or “Let Me Play.”   Scroll through the

Forty Performing Bananas! photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery

selection of poems, then pick a poem!  Jack Pretlusky will be your guide.  To select a poem, click on the arrows.  To play inside a poem, click “Let me play.” While you’re deciding, Jack Pretlusky will sing you a poem about an alligator.  This will make you smile.

One of the key components in a good book app is the ability to clearly see and hear the words.  The New Kid on the Block app does this and more!  In this poetry book app, you can tap on any word to hear it speak.  When you’re listening to the poem, each word is highlighted so you can follow along with the reader.   For example in Forty Performing Bananas, you can click FORTY and the word forty is read out loud with dancing bananas!  

Explore Jack Prelutsky’s website

Two more poetry apps:

• iF Poems:  270 classic poems and audio readings
• Poetry Foundation:  Hundreds of your favorite poems on the go!

For more poetry ideas check out a few poetry websites and past ALSC poetry blog posts:

• ALSC poetry blog posts
• Sylvia Vardell’s blog, Poetry for Children
• This year’s Children’s Poet Laureate, Ken Nesbitt!

This month’s blog post is by “Poetry Paige,” ALSC Digital Content Task Force.  We would love to hear from you.  Please email us at [email protected] or add a comment below.  

Who doesn’t like a scavenger hunt? For years children’s librarians have been incorporating them into activities to help kids navigate the collection or teach them the intricacies of the Dewey Decimal System.

During our tech series last year I decided to add my affinity for scavenger hunts to the mix. To celebrate the end of the iKids program, a weekly tech class for tweens, I transferred the activities to the touch screen. Since it was a small class each child had their own iPad to use for the challenge, but one could always have kids work in teams.

For the summer season bring your scavenger hunt outdoors.

Using an array of apps that we had previously recommended for both preschoolers and school-age children, I also wanted to borrow some adult selections from the library’s adult Appy Hour events. This would make the activity a bit more comprehensive, not to mention more of a challenge.

Before the big hunt I handed out the iPads and explained that some of the tasks would be answered within the app itself, while others required using the app to perform other tasks like taking photos or manipulating images. I felt this would allow for a variety of tech skills to be used, specifically what we had been exploring throughout the rest of the session. I limited the number of questions to ten which lasted about 45 minutes with time afterwards for discussion. Below are some of the selected apps and their matched questions.

Hickory Dickory Dock by Mind Shapes Limited

Hickory Dickory Dock App by Mindshapes Limited

Question – What did the mouse do when the clock struck four?

Google Translate by Google, Inc.

Question – Use this app to translate the phrase my name is … in four different languages. Make sure you use Afrikaans as one of the languages.

Mars Globe by Midnight Martian

Question – Open this app and explore the red planet. Find the dark area that is known as Syrtis Major Planum. What was the year of its discovery? Please list the coordinates for its position.

Photogene by Omer Shoor

Question – Use Photogene to take a photo of the librarians at each desk: Children’s, Welcome, and Tech Lab. Use the collage option to make a collage of all the librarians. Make sure they do not see you – it’s top secret!

Toca Band by Toca Boca AB

Question – Open this app and see which musician plays the guitar. What color is their hat?

Some of the questions required promptings from the librarians. When all the kids were finished we regrouped to share answers and discuss challenges. There were also prizes, of course!

This activity was a great way to introduce kids to new apps while also allowing them to use their creativity in a timed challenge format. As you begin to develop your own list of digital scavenger hunt questions, simply use the apps you have already purchased or tested in previous programs. Much of the fun was spent in composing the list and searching within the apps for hidden possibilities.

Claire Moore is a member of ALSC’s Digital Content Task Force. She is also the Assistant Head of Children’s Services at Darien Library. Contact Claire at [email protected].

Kids’ reading platforms are proliferating like crazy. The best offer a great reading experience and some great books. But none of them have all the best books. And only a few are available to libraries.

Why do kids have to jump from app to app to get the content they want? This publisher here, that one there. History over here, science over here. Picture books in one place, chapter books in another.

Why can’t we pull it all together?

No matter how many books their families buy them, kids always need free books. Not a select list or a special of the week. The books they want the moment they’re ready for them. From the best and most reliable source, the library.

I want the library to be the first place kids look for ebooks.

I want to show them everything we have to offer in one place–our catalog.

I want to offer a great reading experience on any device, not just for chapter books, but for picture books, graphic novels, and photo-heavy nonfiction.

I want to load up our collection with the best books that publishers–all publishers– have to offer.

I want it all in our catalog and accessible with a click.

This is the experience libraries could provide. Why are we settling for less?

What do you think we could do to make better e-reading experiences for kids? Please share your ideas in the comments!

We would love to hear from you.   Please email us at [email protected]

Also, please join our ALSC Digital Content Task force group on ALA Connect.  Share ideas! Add to discussions!

Rachel

This month’s blog post by Rachel Wood, ALSC Digital Content Task Force (virtual committee)
Acting Materials Division Chief
Arlington (VA) Public Library