Libraries & Mobile Tech

libraries & mobile tech
lisacarluccithomas
digital services librarian
southern connecticut state university
SCSU library faculty meeting - march 12, 2010

then & there, here & now
libraries:
information repositories
knowledge centers
(and more)
librarians:
trained in the art of information transfer
skilled curators of rich collections
(and more)
this is no different in the mobile library
lisa carlucci thomas
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then & there, here & now
so, what is different?
first: web 1.0: created worldwide, interconnected, digital information environment
(new rules)
then: web 2.0: information became interpersonal, social, interactive
(new attitudes)
now: mobile technologies: swift, efficient, effective communications & information exchange
(new expectations)
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text message reference
text a librarian: web mediated text message
reference – launched 2009
yale science library:
first iphonesms reference service – 2007
http://www.flickr.com/photos/textalibrarian/3772780201
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeydigits/2036755814/
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electronic collections
www.slideshare.net/lisacarlucci
mobile devices = increased access to collections
www.flickr.com/photos/lisacarlucci
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access services & catalogs
all images except worldcat from: http://userslib.com/category/mobile/
worldcat image: http://www.worldcat.org/mobile/default.jsp
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social networking
They’re “doing stuff.”
Stuff like this:
Posting regular status updates
Interacting with visitors
Pointing to stuff that’s happening in the library (ie., lectures)
Regularly add photos and videos
Using Facebook’s Events feature to list events.
-- david lee king, february 9, 2010
http://www.davidleeking.com/2010/02/09/humanizing-your-facebook-pages/
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mobile applications
“Ever wonder what a wall-sized visualization of live downloads of the 20,000 most popular iPhone apps from the App Store would look like in near real-time?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xiv0l4eR4
www.slideshare.net/lisacarlucci
how mobile changed my life…and will change yours too
(shows examples of mobile content delivery & iphone apps)
http://bit.ly/QLmobile
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what’s next in 2010?
new mobile devices
QR codes
geolocation
augmented reality
mobile payments
new mobile web standards
cloud computing & data storage
proliferation of subject-specific mobile resources
new competencies for librarians & students
... & all the new stuff we don’t even know about yet!
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Libraries & Mobile Tech

by Lisa Carlucci Thomas on Mar 12, 2010

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