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THE TOP 20 BEST ANDROID APPS FOR LIBRARIANS

Tech Camp Rochester 2012 | Presented by Pat Rapp

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ReadingCommunicatingProductivityReference and NewsRandom Information

Apps for:

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APPS FOR READING

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

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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

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Or…

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

listening to book passages

Legimi ebook reader

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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

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Read it Later

For online content

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APPS FOR COMMUNICATING

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Skype

Video chat IM Voice calls

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GrooVe IP – Google Voice

Use data plan instead of phone minutes

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Tweetdeck

Synchronizes your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, and Foursquare accounts

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Hootsuite

Manage Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn

Get stats Use multiple accounts

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STFU

Shut the Phone Up

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APPS FOR PRODUCTIVITY

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Evernote

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

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Colornote

Multi-color sticky notes

Organize lists by color

Easy to use for home and work

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Tape-a-Talk

Record lectures Create voice memos Use it as a

dictaphone

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Dropbox

Save your file to Dropbox

Access it from all your computers or mobile devices

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Google Docs

Create, edit, upload and share your documents

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APPS FOR REFERENCE AND NEWS

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apps.usa.gov

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More apps.usa.gov

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News Apps

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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.

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APPS FOR RANDOM INFO

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Find a Restaurant

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Find Your Car

MyCar Locator

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Find a Bathroom

Sit or Squat Locates bathrooms

and provides ratings from other users

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Speaking of Bathrooms…

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HTTPS://MARKET.ANDROID.COM/

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QUESTIONS?

[email protected]