Mobile Technologies: Why Library Staff Should be Interested

Mobile Technologies: Why Library Staff Should Be Interested Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/bath-library-2011-03/ This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Acceptable Use Policy Recording this talk, taking photographs, discussing the talk using Twitter, IM, etc. is encouraged - but try to keep distractions to others minimised. Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @briankelly / @ukwebfocus Twitter: #bathlib

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About Me
Brian Kelly:
UK Web Focus: national advisory post to UK HEIs
Long-standing Web evangelist
Based at UKOLN at the University of Bath
Prolific blogger (890 posts since Nov 2006)
User of various devices to support professional (and social) activities
Prolific speaker (~365 talks from 1996-2010)
UKOLN:
A national centre of expertise in digital information management
A JISC Innovation Support Centre
Introduction

About This Session Mobile Technologies Personal experiences Consuming content Creating content Enhancing productivity Developing professional relationships Doing new things Learning from others

About This Talk
Mobile devices:
What’s happening today?
What opportunities are there?
What are you doing?
What concerns do you have?
What happens next?
Questions and discussions
But first:
Revisiting the past
Introduction Personal experiences Show and tell General discussion

Mobile Devices
What are the implications of mobile devices?
Challenges Slide from 2004 images X

Mobile Devices
Challenges What do these devices have in common? :-) Slide from 2004 images X

Mobile Devices
Challenges What do these devices have in common? :-) Slide from 2004 images X Consumer devices, networks & digital memory

A Day in the Life
How I use my iPod Touch? Before breakfast I (and others):
Download email
Download new RSS feeds
Download Twitter updates
Download Twitter links using Smartr
Download Facebook updates
…
I am prepared for my journey to work (or for a train journey)

The Essentials
My email : prepared to respond when I arrive at work
My blogs : how I keep up-to-date with developments

The Essentials
UKOLN blogs : keeping informed of my colleagues activities, news, …
My Twitter stream : brief summaries from my community and my search terms

Emerging New Patterns
My Smartr feed : Links posted by my Twitter followers and Twitter lists
Note:
Learnt about service at 07.00 via Facebook from anthropology researcher in Taiwan
Installed software
Used on bus
Published blog post at 09.03
These tweets This content

Emerging New Patterns
My Smartr feed : Links posted by my Twitter followers and Twitter lists
Readitlater (or Instapaper ) provides:
Offline mobile reading
Desktop reading my publishing to The Cloud
I have since:
Created various Twitter lists (e.g. ‘JISC’, Ariadne, ..)
Used Smartr for delivery of focussed content as well as serendipitous content

Another Trip
Tripit is great for managing travel info (trains times, hotel bookings, maps, …) – and even better on a mobile device
Note entry normally created by forwarding email confirmation from travel service to plans@tripit.com

Another Conference
Amplified events are now fairly commonplace in many IT circles
Participants exploit mobile devices and WiFi networks to:
Discuss talks, seek clarification and exchange ideas
Engage with remote audiences (e.g. colleagues at work)
Understanding how such event amplification technologies work (e.g. Twitter, conventions, constraints) can help staff development (and support greening strategies) by enhancing learning without the need to travel

Podcasts
If you don’t like (or can’t) read whilst travelling podcasts can allow you to listen to talks.
Listen to JISC Podcast on desktop PC … Or subscribe to feed so it automatically appears on mobile device

Reflections: Consuming Information
On the Orange bus:
A time for reading
How did I manage to consume new information before I had a mobile device and was productive on the bus?
At conferences:
“ I’ve heard this talk before”
“ This talk isn’t relevant to me”
I can now be productive (and benefit the tax-payer) by working when previously I day-dreamed!

Daily Activities
Get Things Done : how a mobile device enables you to remember what needs to be done in context

Publishing Information
In PowerPoint 2010 can stream slides.
Author needs a Windows Live ID and users can view directly
Possible benefits:
Viewing live presentation as remote audience
Viewing live presentation as local audience with restricted view: “ can you read the slides at the back? ”

Publishing Information
Video streaming apps available on mobile devices
Qik video taken on iPod Touch at FOTE10 conference (too far away; sound distorted) Bambuser video taken (of myself!) on iPod Touch (Device on lectern; video jerky but sound OKish)

New Daily Activities
Since 1 Jan 2011 I have taken and uploaded a photo nearly every day:
Getting into a regular habit
Helps me to look for new things
Mostly taken with my iPod Touch

Evidence of Benefits
Using a mobile device and developing professional / personal networks can bring benefits:
Social Benefits
What pub to go to? A trip to Coventry
What to do: status update on Facebook while in Malaysia
Professional Benefits
A tweet leads to an award-winning paper!
In Case of Emergency - Tweet
Help! Reflections on trip to Thailand in 2008
Help! Reflections on Paul Boag’s experiences: “The Power and Problems of Twitter”

An example of the importance of new media literacy

Conclusions
“ Libraries are about books”
True
But libraries are also about:
Supporting institutional teaching & learning and research activities
Helping users address their information needs
Users
Information literacy and new media literacy
Mobile devices are surely now a part of this environment

Questions
Any questions or comments?

Your Turn
What mobile devices do you use?
What advantage do they provide?
What suggestions would you make to your colleagues?

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