Winners of U. of Illinois Library 2013 Mobile App Competition Announced
Some news from a cool competition for students held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The winning app as well as the runners-up in the U. of Illinois Library 2013 Mobile App Competition were announced on February 21, 2013 during an event in Urbana, IL.
The winning app is named “Stacks”.
It’s described this way:
[The app] promotes the library’s mission of curation, accessibility, relevance and awareness.
You can review the presentation from the Stacks app team as well as those from the first and second runners-up and other participants (six teams in all) on this page.
Find out about the winning teams/apps.
Additional background on this overview page and via links on the competition homepage (guidelines, announcements, etc.).
Some funding for the competition came from IMLS.
Kudos to all involved.
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.