Ever since I heard the news about this app I have been checking the App store almost every day. Well, we are one step closer to being able to download it. There was a comment on February 14th from Kathy Ishizuka (kishizuka@mediasourceinc.com, @kishizuka on Twitter), the Technology Editor for School Library Journal, announcing that the app is finally out of beta testing. Final tweaks are being made.
The app was funded with a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Its creation was a partnership between YALSA, which handled the back-end data, and Ora Interactive, a Chicago-based developer.
Designed for use by teens, librarians, parents, and teachers, the app enables access to quality reads, searchable by author, title, award/list, year, and genre. A randomly generated list of books will refresh daily on the home page for serendipitous discovery. And a Find It! Button, powered by the OCLC WorldCat Search API, will display the nearest library where users can pick up the book.
I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!
