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Download Free LibraryThing Local Books App and Find The Unquiet Library!

The Unquiet Library is now an official venue in the LibraryThing Local Books app for iPhone/iPod!  You can read more about this cool new app and get the link to the free app in iTunes by reading this terrific post at the LibraryThing blog.  You can search for our library by the name, The Unquiet Library, or by our zip code, 30115.   Once you find us, you will find links to our library website, our library blog, and our library catalog!  Check it out and let us know what you think!

Awesome New Templates in Google Sites!

 

Google Sites Offers Templates; Claims It’s Easier Than Sharepoint – ReadWriteEnterprise via kwout

I am jumping for joy at the latest cool addition to my new favorite tool of the 2009-10 school year:  GoogleSites!  They are now offering pre-designed template to help you get started with your web design!  As someone who has used both SharePoint and GoogleSites, I can assure you it IS much easier to work with GoogleSites in terms of editing and filing documents—fewer clicks and a much cleaner interface.  Students and teachers who have used it at my school love it, and so do I!  Google Sites has been a staple in my Media 21 toolbox for my students this semester.

Here is a sneak peek of the templates—they are up and running this morning!  I encourage you to give Google Sites a try!

 

 

Readergirlz and Teen Read Week 2009!

Readergirlz does it AGAIN! Surf over to their website to check out the lineup of author and book chats they have planned for Teen Read Week 2009! Stay tuned to our blog here—we will be announcing our plans for Teen Read Week after we return from Fall Break!

readergirlz: Press Release: rgz and Teen Read Week, 2009 via kwout

Library of Congress Now on iTunes!

Now you can access podcasts and resources from the Library of Congress at iTunes!  Here is what Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress blog has to say about this exciting new Web 2.0 addition for LOC:

Blog. Twitter. YouTube.  iTunes.  Yeah, we speak Web 2.0.

You nation’s Library has millions of stories to tell, so we’re trying to tell them as many places and to as many people as possible–whether on our own website or elsewhere.  And now you can add another biggie to the list: iTunes U.

For those who don’t know, iTunes U is an area of the iTunes Store offering free education audio and video content from many of the world’s top universities and other institutions. (The iTunes application is needed to access iTunes U, and is a free download from www.apple.com/itunes.)

The Library’s iTunes U page launched today with a great deal of content, with much more to come.  (Link here, opens in iTunes.)  A nice bonus, for those in the know, is that the content is downloadable and even includes materials such as PDFs.

As always, it’s also available in the Library’s own corner of the web.

So as long as people keep finding new ways to get information, we’re going to keep finding ways to get it to you!