by Nicole Hennig | May 24, 2014
The world needs more high quality app reviews. Have you noticed that most reviews in Apple’s app store are not well-informed? Many people dash off a tech support question, or write something based on a misunderstanding of what the app does.
Librarians have been reviewing books for years. Now is the time to do the same with mobile apps.
App Review Checklist
Here’s a checklist I’ve developed as a guideline for reviewing mobile apps. (more…)
by Nicole Hennig | May 23, 2014
What are the best apps for librarians to know about and use? To answer that, consider two things: 1) Librarians use apps for their own professional work, and 2) Librarians recommend apps to their users for all sorts of tasks.
So asking this is kind of like asking “what are the best books for librarians?” It’s too broad!
In spite of that, there are some core, standard apps that everyone who recommends apps should be familiar with. These are core for the following reasons:
- They have been around for more than a year and usage is growing.
- They are part of an ecosystem that works as native mobile app, web app, and possibly a desktop app.
- They offer easy ways to send information into and out of these apps.
- They cover the most basic, useful things that people want to do with their mobile devices.
So given that, here’s my list:
(all are for both Android and iOS, except Fantastical and iBooks) (more…)
