Mobile Learning Presentation May 1, 2009

FROM THE ULTIMATE MOBILE DEVICE TO ULTIMATELY MOBILE: LIBRARIES AND MOBILE SERVICES Karen Hunt Libraries Electronic Services and Technologies, UML Mobile Learning Symposium, University of Manitoba, May 1 2009

Education ⪮ Libraries How do mobile technologies impact education? What can educators do to take advantage of the powerful computing devices most students carry in their pockets?

TYPICAL RESPONSES TO THE MOBILITY OF LEARNERS

Lending of books Services for Distance Education PC’s from home - proxied access to online resources Telephone / Chat / Instant Messaging Help Wireless access in Libraries / Lending laptops and notebooks

Why isn’t “Ask a Librarian” more successful? Questions in March 2009 Number of Students Market penetration is 30000 really poor 25000 Students (with a few 22500 exceptions) have to be on the Libraries’ web site to access 15000 service 7500 0 127

The other oldest profession one quarter of librarians are 55 years or older Source: The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries, 2005

The Future? Enterprises in North America will be supporting more mobile phones than desktop phones by 2011 http://www.gartner.com The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020. The Future of the Internet III , Pew Report, December 2008

EMERGING RESPONSES

podcasts smartphone apps (catalogue search) m-Libraries Conference (m-libraries2009.ubc.ca) outside N.A. initiatives skills / content / services

POTENTIAL RESPONSES

ADDRESSING THE GAP

at the least put the gear into the hands of the staff that are going to create the content make the content accessible provide the services make the contacts

'Mobile Computing’, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries,6:1,64 — 68 Lippincott, J. K. (2008). Mobile technologies, mobile users: Implications for academic libraries. ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues & Actions, (261), 1-4. Instant Messaging via mobile set to challenge the status quo of non-voice communication, 2008 http://www.tnsglobal.com/

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