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Tutor.com To Go Is Mobile Companion to Tutor.com

It seems that we can do just about everything from our phones these days. But until now you couldn’t work with a tutor to finish a homework assignment or polish a resume. Now your patrons can do that and a whole lot more. Tutor.com To Go empowers users to connect to a professional academic or career tutor right from their iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. This new service is available to your patrons for free as part of your subscription to the Tutor.com Learning Suite.

Beyond the cool factor of mobile technology, it’s also a lifeline for lower-income teens. According to the Pew Research Center, 41 percent of teens in the lowest
household income category use their mobile phone to go online.¹

This is their primary source of access to the Internet and all the information they require to fully participate in an advanced, technologically savvy world. Libraries that want to help bridge the digital divide will need to meet these students where they live—on their phones.

1. Amanda Lenhart et al., “Teens and Mobile Phones,” Pew Internet and American Life Project, Apr. 20, 2010, accessed July 13, 2011.