Presentation for CoFHE 2011 conference with numerous examples of mobile technologies being used in libraries. All resources available at: http://www.delicious.com/tag/cofhemobapps
2. Why should you get serious
about mobile web?
2011 even moreso!
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4. 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
5. What knowledge does an m-librarian need?
• Different mobile devices
• Basics of using mobile
software
• QR codes
• Location services
• Augmented reality
6. 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)
7. Library content on
mobile devices
E-books, electronic articles, digitised materials...
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15. Library services from
mobile devices
Enquiry support, finding resources, circulation,
collecting statistics, room booking...
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University of Warwick Library
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North Carolina State Library
24. 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)
25. Mobile specific
content/services
QR codes, location services, augmented reality
40. 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