I have an Android phone that I use for pretty much everything, so that's what I used for this "Thing." I really liked Shannon McClintock Miller's idea of the "Library in Your Pocket" and created an "SLS" folder on my phone for work/library-related apps so they'd all be in one place. Included in my "pocket" are the following apps: OverDrive, Follett Destiny, Nook, QR Code Reader, YALSA's Teen Book Finder, Wonderopolis, EasyBib, Oxford Dictionary of English, Questia, and Office Mobile. Some of these were apps I already had on my phone, but others I downloaded specifically after reading through Thing 14.
In my position at Capital Region BOCES, I sometimes travel to schools to help librarians and their staff with various library-related problems. The OverDrive app is really nice because you can add more than one library to it and store your log-ins. For example, I have a BOCES OverDrive account and an Upper Hudson Library System OverDrive account. It's nice and streamlined to be able to just access one app for either library catalog. The Follett Destiny app is good to have for teachers and other library staff members for those times when they might not have or want to do traditional checkout at a circulation desk (library on a cart, teaching from the computer lab, etc.)
Prior to reading through this Thing, I didn't realize there were so many free reference books available through the Google Play Store, probably because I primarily use my phone for personal business. Through the "reference" search in the Play Store, I found Oxford Dictionary and many other free and useful apps, though I did not download them all -- topics including MS Office product tutorials, coding apps, and math guides. If I was still a student, this would be really a great resource for homework and research help. Many of the reference guide apps were free.
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