ARLIS Experimenting with mobile technologies in libraries
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Mlibs: Experimenting with mobile technologies in libraries
Jo Alcock @joeyanne
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Why should you get serious about mobile web?
2011 even moreso!
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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
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What knowledge do m-librarians need?
• Different mobile devices
• Basics of using mobile software
• QR codes
• Location services
• Augmented reality
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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)
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Library content on mobile devices
E-books, electronic articles, digitised materials...
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Library services from mobile devices
Enquiry support, finding resources, circulation, collecting statistics, room booking...
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SMS enquiries
State Library of Ohio
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SMS tips
University of Huddersfield Library
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Keele University Library (Bowker's Library Anywhere)
Mobile catalogue
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Roving enquiries
University of Warwick Library
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Mobile circulation
DC Public Library
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Loaning mobile devices
Creekview High School Library
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Collecting library statistics
University of Warwick Library
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Collecting library statistics
North Carolina State Library
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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)
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Mobile specific content/services
QR codes, location services, augmented reality
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London School of Economics Library
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Charles Darwin University Library
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The Wallace Center/Rochester Institute of Technology
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Staffordshire University Library
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University of Huddersfield Library
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University of Bedfordshire Library
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Delaware District County Library
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Aberystwyth University Library
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University of Bedfordshire Library (using ZBar)
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EasyBib (reference management)
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Oak Park Public Library
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University of Warwick Library
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University of Sheffield (campusM by oMbiel)
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Miami University, Ohio
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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
• Some mobile OPACs*
• Refworks/EBSCO*
*free with existing subscriptions
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What do we need to do?
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Charles Darwin University Library
What do users want?
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Mobile infrastructure for libraries programme
Where do we go from here?
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JISC m-library support project
• Evidence gathering
• Gathering existing resources and collecting new case studies to share
• Community building
• Facilitating communication and encouraging sharing of good practice
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Support project blog
http://m-libraries.info
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Useful resources
#mlibs
Please add resources using the mlibs tag
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Points to take away• Be flexible and adaptable to
users' needs
• Reduce duplication of effort by sharing resources and information
• Utilise free resources
• Animoto (video creation)
• bit.ly (URL shortener with statistics)
• ZBar (barcode reader)
• Kaywa (QR code generator)