Money Smart Week @
Your Library
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April 20-27
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Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank & ALA
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Idea is to have library programs based around
money and personal finance
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Possible Program Topics:
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Money savvy kids
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Retirement planning
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Smart investing
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College financing
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Savings strategies
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Credit & debit
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Financial recordkeeping
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Cooking on a budget
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Coupon club
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Protecting your finances in times of crisis or
divorce
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Identity theft
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How to start your own small business or
foundation
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Suggestions for promotion were in line with our
established practices
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How libraries participate
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Provide at least one class during MSW (April 20-27)
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Use current relationships with financial
education presenters
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Publicize events
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Register events into online database
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Report program attendance and survey evaluation
results
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I had previously watched this, the CLA
presentation was much a reprise of that, though with more pictures and good
public presenters. Michael Dowling of
the ALA has a very impressive presentation style.
The
overall impression is that libraries typically outsource the instruction to
community groups, with the stipulation that there can be no “selling” of
services. One of the most popular events
is “shred day”, which is the same as what we do on Earth Day when we have the
big shredder come. Apparently shredding
things is universally enjoyed.
50 Mobile Apps for
iOS/Android and Edmodo for Teachers and Librarians
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Handout has a full list of the apps addressed
and has a short little description
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General use apps such as:
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250,000+ Recipes BigOven
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Allrecipies
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Overdrive
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Kindle
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Merriam Webster Dictionary
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Yellowpages
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Google Goggles
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White Pages
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Govt sites
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Bible
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Google Translate
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SportsTap
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Accessmylibrary allows access to gale databases
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Reference USA has a app that allows access if
the library has a subscription
The list provided in the link above is certainly worth checking
out. A lot of the apps are for both
android and iOS, and most of them are free, so they might be worth trying out
for a little bit and then deleting if necessary. I would use the presentation as a perfect
example, of refraining from basing ones presentation on reading the information
on the slides or repeating the information provided in a handout.
Learning
Everywhere: The Transformative Power of
Hyperlinked Libraries: Michael Stephens,
Distinguished Author and Professor
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Mobile applications are now ubiquitous
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Even kids are using small mobile devices
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Libraries now stand in the position where
information is readily available
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One goal for libraries is the preserve the
communities heritage
M Stephens is certainly worth seeing if only for the presentation style
and fluidity, unfortunately the presentation was geared for librarians seeking
to make the jump into the first decade of the 21st Century. This was essentially “Library 2.1”, the question
does rise: How do libraries, why should
libraries, can libraries make the move to incorporate mobile devices and apps
into their services. At what point does
utility stray into gimmick?
The Sky’s the
Limit: Teach Your Customers How to Soar
with eBooks
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San Diego County, Contra Costa County and San
Jose public library all circulate ebooks to patrons
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Numerous libraries found an enormous step up
over other systems since migrating their ebook services to 3M’s cloud service.
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If a library does not provide eBooks that are
ADA compliant (i.e. iPad, iPod, Touch), a library can expect to get “nasty
letters”
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One library came up with a program to circulate
nooks to elderly patrons
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Failure
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All 12 nooks are now sitting in a back office
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Text too small
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Hard for patrons to use touch screen
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Text hard to read
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Technical requirements difficult for many
patrons to overcome
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Patrons did not understand how to use the
devices
It
was a librarian from Sacramento who stood up and made the comment that if you
don’t provide devices that are ADA compliant that you’ll get “nasty
letters”. This situation is reflected in
the links provided above. The overall
vibe was that the idea of circulating ebooks is a mixed bag. Like all technology it’s great when it works,
however in this case there were numerous instances of the program/service not
working. The learning curve to get
patrons familiar with certain devices was steep enough that it required a great
deal of time and attention from individual librarians to teach patrons how to
use the devices. At one library it
naturally evolved so that different librarians would be specialized on
different devices and thereby be called on to answer patron questions.
Defying Gravity: Into the Cloud with Chromebooks
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Palo Alto City Library & Santa Cruz Public
Library offer Google Chromebooks for checkout
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Palo Alto has a web based presentation regarding
their Chromebook lending process
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Palo Alto has found that the devices are very
Palo Alto has had 20 devices either broken or gone missing
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Approximately $500 each
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Cracked screens are common and can be replaced
without having to replace the device as a whole
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For true functionality users need to have a
Google account in order to download and install apps, or use Google
documents.
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I asked the rep from Google if there was any
plan to make it so that Apps could automatically appear for users under the
guest account, she said that it was “on their road map”
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Currently there is no way to filter the internet
from the Chromebook itself, all filtering has to be done from the internet
side.
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I asked the rep if Google planned for a method
to filter the internet from the computer itself and was told no.
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A number of libraries seemed to think that this
was the wave of the future
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The new wave of Chromebooks features a more
powerful Intel processor
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