Information+and+Education

=Information and Education = Information and education are what we are all about. However, there is just too much information out there. The links below all deal managing information.

=Digital Usage Policy= This has been an amazing year for my library in that I have had the chance to create 4 digital usage policies. These policies help to creat a culture of respect surrounding the use of digital resources. These policies are leveled by age and grade.



ZOTERO [] This is one of my favorite ways to manage citations. It lives in your Firefox web browser. With it installed as an applet, you can take snapshot of webpages, immediate stor the date tiem and authorship information and manage your snapshots according to folders. It also scans documents for meta-data like isbn numbers and other indicators. You can organize this information in the same folders as your web page snapshots. But best of all, you can export your citations in one of 37 citation formats as well as share your citations in a social networking type of environement... amazing really!

EVERNOTE [] Evernote is a powerful digital tool that you can use to digitally capture literally everything you see and hear. It works in a cloud based environment meaning that your notes are stored online. What is neat is that you can also use your portable devices to upload images and sounds to the same cloud space. Once you have your data, evernote will mine it for you using character recognition. The example they give on their website is collecting wine labels you like with your phone camera. Then evernote will scan and organize the notes based on the criteria you select!

GRAB MY BOOKS http://www.grabmybooks.com/ Grab my books is a interesting example of how media and information is converging. Grab my books very simply takes an internet web page and converts it into and E-pub document that you can read on your favorite reader. As we all know, readers are more easy and comfortable to use than a computer. This software points the way toward a future where web pages are brought with us on our readers for viewing, and consuming.... RIGHT NEXT TO OUR BOOKS!