A team of people and I have signed up as mentors for our own respective team. We are now part of Technology Toolbox program. Where three gadgets are made available to staff and staff are encourage to play with them. Management hopes that all FOH staff would get familiar with these gadgets and in near future be able to assist patrons. Not so much as to educate patron, but how to use such gadget to navigate around out library and access SLV collection materials.
My first priority to get use the pro and cons, its internal system, and websites which supplies goods to view on Kindle. So far...
Kindle apps:
Every Word (free)
Shuffled Row (free)
Mine sweep (free)
Panda poet (USD 2.99)
Triple Town for Kindle (USD 2.99)
Kindle support file with these extensions:
.azw
.txt
.pdf
.mobi
.prc
Free ebooks can be found on these websites and some of them allow you to download in Kindle format (*.azw):
(my fave) http://manybooks.net/
(membership required) http://www.free-ebooks.net/
(best free tech books) http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=texts
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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