CK-12’s collection of over 100,000 textbooks just keeps growing! The free resource platform now has roughly 106,000 texts provided by about 30,000 schools. For more on this announcement, click here.
If you’re unfamiliar with CK-12, check out their page here. The site has resources for math, science, English, history, and even SAT prep!
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Mark your calendars – ARLD Day is coming up! The event takes place on Friday, April 24, 2015 from 8:30 AM until 4:00 PM. This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow librarians, share ideas, and explore new ones. And it’s close to home – at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska. This year’s keynote speaker is Stephanie Davis-Kahl, the Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. The event is hosted by the Academic and Research Libraries Division of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA).
Click here for more information about the event (including proposal submissions, registration, and Stephanie Davis-Kahl).
For more events like ARLD Day, check out our Events/Initiatives page.
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Leave it to Buzzfeed to find us book lovers more things to buy! Chelsey Pippin’s 28 Literary Accessories All Book Lovers Must Have is basically a shopping list of the things we’ll be buying this year. All the items on the list come from Etsy accounts.
Some products, like this scarf, are general for all book lovers:
Others, like these earrings, are specific to a certain book, author, or series:
As if there wasn’t enough to buy from last month’s post! Happy shopping!
Recently, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) came out with their 25 Best Apps for Teaching & Learning for 2014. The apps were chosen because they foster innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration.
One of these apps is Easy Portfolio. This app allows users to save website links, videos, pictures, audio files, and other documents to their personal portfolios.
The app is recommended for all grades K-12. It is available for $1.05 on Android and for $1.99 on iOS. This quick video shows a couple of the things you can do on the app:
For more apps, check out our 2014-2015 Recommended App archive!
Introducing our new monthly update – Notable Dates for your Noggin! Each month we’ll bring you a compiled list of fun national holidays, birthdays of authors, and publication dates of favorite books. You can use these for your own personal use or for some library inspiration!
Did we miss anything? Let us know if we did!
For our calendar of library events, including conferences and library days, check out our Events/Initiatives page.
And for more Notable Dates for Your Noggin, check out our Notable Dates page.