implementation of mobile libraries (m-libraries) at open university malaysia
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PowerPoint presentation slides during the 12th International Conference on Information (ICI12) on 12-13 Dec 2012 at Kuala LumpurTRANSCRIPT
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Introduction – mobile technology in society
What is m-libraries?What is m-libraries?
Quick Response Code (QR-Code)
Why m-libraries?
QR-Code
Usability testing
The future
� Mobile technology in society
� mobile banking
� mobile shopping
� mobile government
� mobile learning – put school into everyone
pocket’s (Mohamed Ally, 2010)
� mobile library – learners have a library in their
pockets to access information any time, anywhere
� Libraries that :
Deliver information
and and
Learning materials
in
Mobile devices
(Needham & Ally, 2008)
� libraries can provide the following mobile
services through m-libraries (Vollmer, 2010):
Mobile online public access catalog (OPAC)� Mobile online public access catalog (OPAC)
� A webcam so users can check on
congestion in the library
� Mobile library databases
� SMS notifications, etc.
• Not just shrinking the page
Sierra, Tito (2009), Mobile Library Projects at North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries
CNI 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting
• Not just shrinking the page
� Not just shrinking the page
� Use only relevant & essential content
� Information searching behaviour
� Faster access & download
� Mobile devices are small
� to reach existing users (distance
learners, physically-challenged, etc.)
� new users, esp. the youth� new users, esp. the youth
� 3 times as many mobile phones as
PCs
� mobile makes library content
ubiquitous (Kroski, 2009)
Contact information
Directions to the Library
Library news
Opening hours
Catalog (OPAC)
Most often
present
Loan information & renewals
Links to mobile enabled
databases
Check computer availability
Booking discussion rooms
Links to mobile-enabled search
engine
Webcams to check congestion
Krishnan, Y. (2011). Libraries and the mobile revolution. Computers in Libraries, 31 (3), 6-9 & 40
Most seldom
present
•2-dimensional bar code
readable by smart phone camera
• Authentication entry
• To determine main area users like to access
via mobile:
contact no. - 86.5%� contact no. - 86.5%
� loan details - 79%
� mobile OPAC - 68.6%
• OUM Library change layout of mobile version
Before Now
� 92% of users increase their library portal
visits via PCs, laptops after using mobile
libraries
• Usage of mobile libraries,
according to Griffey, 2010 :
� Percentage of total visitors � Percentage of total visitors
to library’s website
� 2-5 percentage – consider
success
� OUM – 3.18 % (Jan 2012 –
current)
� every 100 visits, 3 are via mobile devices
� penetration rate of mobile banking – 3%
(Bank Negara Malaysia, 2009)
• Mobile more powerful and less expensive
• Location sensitive • Location sensitive
� Global Positioning System (GPS)
� personalised libraries
• Ubiquitous technology
�reference service and queries via mobile
devices
� maybe mobile checkout – self checkout
using mobile device at bookshelves
� Libraries must fully utilize mobile technology to attract more patrons
� M-libraries enhance u-learning process� M-libraries enhance u-learning process
� M-libraries able to reach out to users through their preferred method of communication,
� ie. mobile devices
� Library in Your Pocket: Strategies and Techniques for
Developing Successful Mobile Services by David
Woodbury and Jason Casden
� Sierra, Tito (2009), Mobile Library Projects at North
Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries
CNI 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting
� Krishnan, Y. (2011). Libraries and the mobile revolution.
Computers in Libraries, 31 (3), 6-9 & 40
� Vollmer, T. (2010) There’s an App for That! Libraries and
Mobile Technology: An Introduction to Public Policy
Considerations. Washington, D.C.: American Library
Association
� Griffey, J. (2010). Mobile technology and libraries. London:
Facet Publishing.