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Navigating Library Decisions: Ebooks, Audiobooks, and Technology in Education

In today's educational landscape, library media specialists face critical decisions regarding technology and resources. This guide explores choices between ebooks and audiobooks, as well as devices like Kindles, Nooks, iPads, and more. It addresses the importance of collaborating with teachers, incorporating Common Core standards, and offering students diverse product options. Learn how to utilize technology effectively in the library, promote reading and research skills, and determine the best resources for your community. Check helpful links and reach out for guidance.

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Navigating Library Decisions: Ebooks, Audiobooks, and Technology in Education

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  1. What YaGonna Do?Library Decision Making Rachel Shankles, LMS

  2. Main Library Concerns @ this time • Ebooks or Audiobooks • Kindles or Nooks • iPads or iPods or iTouches • Smartboards or Prometheon or Interwrite • Databases or Print Reference Material • Magazine Collections or just EBSCO • Traveler or other databases • Programming or not • Book Club or not • Collaborations or not

  3. Common Core Needs All of These • Embedded technology elements • Long term and short term projects • Collaborations with teachers • Offering students choices of products • Problem solving in research • Reading the classics and historical fiction, nonfiction, and biography • All types of presentations

  4. Common Core • It may only be implemented in lower grades but you better get ready for it • Learn all you can about it • Check all the helpful links on Rachel’s wiki http://aaimlibrarywiki.wikispaces.com • Check out the ADE wiki http://ccssarkansas.pbworks.com/w/page/41448809/ADE-Common-Core-State-Standards-(CCSS)-Wiki-

  5. Learn some Web 2.0 programs so that you can teach your teachers how to embed projects in their lessons • Animoto • Glogster • Photovisi • Photostory • Audacity • Wordle • Wall Wisher

  6. Make a decision on eBook/audio books and what kind of readers • Collect data • Determine if audio or ebooks are needed most • Buy one of each to try • See which is recommended by the jobber you will buy the ebooks from • Get a trial subscription to an ebook service • Call your book vendor like Follett and ask lots of questions as to what they recommend • Call your software vendor to see what works best with your circulation system • Check with your IT department about kids downloading at school from your server • Call an AAIM or AASL associate that you know has taken the step and pick their brain

  7. If there is no money for Kindles or Nooks . . . • Check with your local public library to see if they have Overdrive and if you can access it at school; if so what ereaders work best • Call EBSCO and see how their free ebooks work and with what readers work best • Write a literacy grant for Kindles or Nooks or generic ereaderslike Sony’s • Make sure you know what you want and that it will work on your network

  8. Contact Me Rachel Shankles, LMS shankles@cablelynx.com Cell 501-276-4949 Lakeside High School Rachel_Shankles@lakesidesd.org 501-262-2530

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