It's Elementary

I have so many exciting ideas from the 2013 Kansas Association of School Librarians conference! I can't wait to get started with some and share some as well! The first thing I did when I got done with the conference (or actually, before I was done) was to start exploring ebooks from my regular library vendors and a few new places.

One of the new places I tried was Mackin, a company that graciously gives libraries 37 ebooks to try out for free. They can be used an unlimited amount of times and simultaneously by multiple users. I have been scared to try ebooks for fear that it would be hard to integrate into our library system and difficult to figure out how to check books out. Was I wrong! Thanks to Mackin, I literally had 37 ebooks in our library catalog in a matter of minutes. I have no hesitation about buying more ebooks so I hope our staff and students are ready to embrace reading and using ebooks!

I have created a video to show how to access ebooks from Destiny. I will distribute login information to our staff and students over the course of the next couple of weeks.   North Fairview library patrons, contact me if you need your login information!

By the way, another one of the great things I learned at the conference was how easy it is to use Screencast-o-matic!  I will definitely be sharing videos to show how to do things more often now!