iPad

Articles: Jaroslovsky, R. (2010). Diary of an ipad man. __Business Week__, 4174__.__ Retrieved from [] Phillips, C. (2010). iPad promises to revolutionize comic-book style story-telling. __Chattanooga Times/ Free Press (TN).__ Retrieved from []

Here's a news article from today (4/20) saying that 2 universities have blocked iPad access to their networks due to technical issues. This goes to our argument for why an iPad is not something we can recommend for our school library - it is still an unproven technology. I think that libraries should not be "early adopters" of new technologies in part because early adopters often pay a price -- monetary, time, effort -- for being the first to get the latest gadget. As shepherds of our school's library, we need to be cutting edge, but not bleeding edge. [|Princeton bans iPad]

Decent blog on why iPad isn't ready for schools yet: []

Another decent blog on the possibilities: [|http://libtechtalk.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/guest-post-the-ipad-and-the-library/]

The interesting thing about trying to research iPad is that of course it is so new that blogs & news articles are most all that we'll find; the journal articles we're used to using for research are always going to be behind the times. (Which also goes into the "why wait" explanation.)