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Well, you can get smartphone apps from Gale that are pretty amazing because they sense your location and then direct you to database content licensed by the nearest library (eerily fabulously helpful).

Buffy Hamilton tells you about the school library edition in this video (particularly useful to Michiganders because Gale supplies many databases to us via the Michigan eLibrary (or MeL):

But what about our core collections? I don’t know of folks who have figured out how to put their OPACs on mobile devices yet. (Oh, Follett, are you listening?) It would be awesome if we could easily do this — and my hunch is that it wouldn’t take very arduous programming work. Imagine if kids could access the collection — including links you may have been adding to your MARC records — from anywhere.

Our university library just announced a mobile interface, along with a rather, uh, cheeky ad campaign popping up all over campus:

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What if we could start this 24/7 pocket access and build those habits with younger patrons?

Check out the L4L school video contest here.

Deadline: March 18, 2011

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Sue Ballard, long-time chair of AASL’s Learning Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force, has been tireless in her work to spread the word of the great AASL Standards to non-librarian populations. (She was also lead author of our awkwardly-renamed article “More Than Shelving and Shushing,” which appeared in the December 2010 issue of NASSP’s Principal Leadership.)

Here is her latest effort, which appeared this week in ASCD’s Whole Child Blog. Congratulations, Sue! Thanks for representing us so well.

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