ALA LITA MCIG presentation

JISC m-libs UK academic library perspective Jo Alcock @joeyanne ALA LITA MCIG webinar

JISC Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programmeFive institutional projects and acommunity support projectUK higher education focusNovember 2011 - August 2012

Institutional projects The Open University University of Bristol London School of Economics and Political Science City University London

Macon Mobilising Academic Content Online • Mobile discovery interface (using the EBSCO API) • Mobile authentication bookmarklet tool • Good practice toolkit for publishers and libraries • EvaluationProject blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/macon Twitter hashtag: #OUMACON #mlibs

M-Biblio Project – University of Bristol• Develop a mobile phone application that can record and organise references to books, journals and other resources• Provide user-derived usage statistics of books and journals to the library• Blog: http://mbiblio.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/

PhoneBoothPhoneBooth will repurpose the Charles Booth Maps, Descriptive ofLondon Poverty and selected police notebooks (which record eye-witnessdescriptions of London street-by-street) for delivery to mobile devices http://jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com/ • enhance the current online delivery • deliver content to the location to which it refers • pilot in a teaching course • mobilisation will be a model for further development of digital library services

Mobile library community support projectEvidence Base at Birmingham City University Owen Stephens Consulting

Evidence gatheringCollecting existing m-library case studiesGathering information on m-libraryinitiativesCollecting information from the programmeSharing information and case studies withinterested parties (within and outsideprogramme)

Community buildingFacilitating communication withinm-library community Information sharing events Online communicationEncouraging sharing of goodpractice

Useful resources #mlibsPlease add resources using #mlibs

Further informationSupport project bloghttp://m-libraries.infoBundle of related linkshttp://bit.ly/mlibsproject

ContactJo Alcock@joeyannejo.alcock@bcu.ac.ukhttp://m-libraries.info

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