You have to love this from story of a 14-year old Robert Nay who created Bubble Ball, the top selling iPhone app using his public library: “Silicon Valley has Apple, Redmond, Washington has Microsoft, and Spanish Forks, Utah has theirs, the public library” –ABC News. “My friends told me I should create my own iPhone app, so I thought why not, that would be pretty cool. I checked out a book from the library…and found a program called Corona SDK that helped me.” Bubble Ball has been downloaded over 2 million times.
Read more about this at http://www.observer.com/2011/media/14-year-olds-iphone-app-beats-out-angry-birds?utm_medium=partial-text&utm_campaign=home
or watch the video at http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/tween-tech-prodigy-23867645
Jim Minges is the Director of NEKLS. You can reach him by email (jminges (at) nekls.org) or by phone. Visit the 
So, Jim, do you know any fourteen-year-olds (or older) who could write an iphone app for NExpress? I would love it. I use my WorldCat app frequently and wish I could access our catalog as easily. What do you think? (…besides the fact that it’s weird for someone to frequently use the WorldCat app?!)