• Venture Beat, Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:17 PM

The New York Public Library this week is expected to debut its new iPad app, "Biblion: The Boundless Library." Available for free, the first edition of the Biblion app features over 700 items from the library's 1939-1940 New York World's Fair collection. But, according to VentureBeat, the app is just the beginning for the august institution as it's "beginning to embrace tablets in a big way."

Indeed, "The Library is aiming to open up the wealth of its research collections to the public, so we can expect updates to the app with more collections in the future ... Biblion is just one of three major iPad apps that NYPL is planning."

Partly driving the innovation is the fact that that NYPL is celebrating its centennial this year with a big "Find the Future" exhibition. Takes full advantage of the iPad's touch-screen, Bibilion offers documents, pictures, and other content in the app in a metaphorical way based on the Library's stacks. "The end result is an app that's a joy to flip through," VentureBeat writes.

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