experimenting with mobile technologies in libraries
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Experimenting with mobile technologies in libraries
Jo Alcock@joeyanne
UK mobile statistics
• There are more mobile phones in the UK than people
• 51.3% of UK mobile phone users have a smartphone
• 12% of UK population have a tablet (and sales are growing 378% each year)
Sources:2012 Mobile Internet Usage Statistics blog post (from Westminster eForum event, March 2012)2012 Mobile Future in Focus report (Feb 2012)
Why should we get serious about mobile web?
Mobile vs. Desktop web in UK
What skills do m-librarians need?
• IT Skills
• Personal traits
• User focus
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Research and development
Kate Davis and Prof. Helen Partridge at #mlib11
What knowledge does an m-librarian need?
• Different mobile devices
• Basics of using mobile software
• QR codes
• Location services
• Augmented reality
Mobile technologies in libraries
• Library content on mobile devices (books, articles)
• Library services from mobile devices (enquiries, statistics, collection management, circulation)
• Mobile specific content/services (location services, QR codes, augmented reality)
Library content on mobile devices
E-books, electronic articles, digitised materials...
How people actually use the iPad
iBooks textbooks
Collins, Hodder, Nelson Thornes, Open University, Oxford University Press and Pearson Education have created Multi-Touch textbooks available now from the iBookstore.
Ebook apps on iPad
JISC MACON
JISC PhoneBooth
Library services from mobile devices
Enquiry support, finding resources, circulation, collecting statistics, room booking...
SMS enquiries
State Library of Ohio
SMS tips
University of Huddersfield Library
Keele University Library
Mobile catalogue
Roving enquiries
University of Warwick Library
Mobile circulation
DC Public Library
Loaning mobile devices
Creekview High School Library
Radcliffe Science Library (University of Oxford)
Loaning mobile devices
Collecting library statistics
University of Warwick Library
Collecting library statistics
North Carolina State Library
Other experiments
• Room booking by mobile (incorporating QR code outside room to check availability and book if free)
• Paperless online weeding (using iPad in the stacks to colour code stock as "dusty" and withdraw from catalogue if necessary)
Mobile specific content/services
QR codes, location services, augmented reality
LSE Library
North Carolina State University Library
The Wallace Center/Rochester Institute of Technology
Staffordshire University Library
University of Huddersfield Library
University of Bedfordshire Library
Delaware District County Library
Aberystwyth University Library
University of Bedfordshire Library
Oak Park Public Library
University of Warwick Library
University of Sheffield
SCARLET project
Miami University, Ohio
Great, but...
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Some of this doesn't cost money!
• QR codes
• Location apps (e.g. Foursquare, SCVNGR)
• Barcode scanning apps
• Open source software
• Summon mobile*
• Database mobile apps*
*free with existing subscriptions
What do we need to do?
Charles Darwin University Library
What do users want?
Points to take away• Aim for high impact, low cost
• Don't over invest
• Utilise free resources
• Animoto (video creation)
• bit.ly (URL shortener with statistics and QR codes)
• ZBar (barcode reader)
• Kaywa (QR code generator)
• Be flexible and adaptable to users' needs
