the top 20 best android apps for librarians

THE TOP 20 BEST ANDROID APPS FOR LIBRARIANS

Tech Camp Rochester 2012 | Presented by Pat Rapp

ReadingCommunicatingProductivityReference and NewsRandom Information

Apps for:

APPS FOR READING

Kindle for Android is a free app Buy books from Amazon Borrow from your library

But have you considered…

Import any epub or pdf file Download from Feedbooks,

Smashwords or other online sites such as Project Guttenberg.

Aldiko Book Reader

Or…

Free or cheap ebooks Epub format Read-out-loud feature allows for

listening to book passages

Legimi ebook reader

Monroe County Library System

Access to ebooks owned by MCLS Decide on your loan period – 1, 2, or

3 weeks Automatically returns books on due

date

LS2 Library Catalog

Read it Later

For online content

APPS FOR COMMUNICATING

Skype

Video chat IM Voice calls

GrooVe IP – Google Voice

Use data plan instead of phone minutes

Tweetdeck

Synchronizes your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, and Foursquare accounts

Hootsuite

Manage Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn

Get stats Use multiple accounts

STFU

Shut the Phone Up

APPS FOR PRODUCTIVITY

Evernote

Take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable

Colornote

Multi-color sticky notes

Organize lists by color

Easy to use for home and work

Tape-a-Talk

Record lectures Create voice memos Use it as a

dictaphone

Dropbox

Save your file to Dropbox

Access it from all your computers or mobile devices

Google Docs

Create, edit, upload and share your documents

APPS FOR REFERENCE AND NEWS

apps.usa.gov

More apps.usa.gov

News Apps

Voice Translator

Supported languages : Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

APPS FOR RANDOM INFO

Find a Restaurant

Find Your Car

MyCar Locator

Find a Bathroom

Sit or Squat Locates bathrooms

and provides ratings from other users

Speaking of Bathrooms…

HTTPS://MARKET.ANDROID.COM/

QUESTIONS?

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