Going mobile final-slideshare

GOING Meg Kribble Research Librarian & Outreach Coordinator MOBILE Harvard Law School Library http://slideshare.net/mak506 AALL J2 - July 13, 2010 Photo: Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County Book Mobile

Why mobile apps? St. Paul Public Library’s Book Mobile, 1917 iPad Ad, 2010

32 % of American smartphone owners who have used the device to access the Internet Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics, January 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project

23 % of cellphone users who go online on a typical day Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics, January 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project

53 % of users between 18 and 29 who have used the internet on a handheld device Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics, January 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project

39 % of college graduates who have used the internet on a handheld device Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics, January 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project

46 % of lawyers who report regular Internet use on a PDA/smartphone/Blackberry 2009 Legal Technology Survey Report American Bar Association

2.3 % of lawyers who report regular use of mobile device for legal research 2009 Legal Technology Survey Report American Bar Association

an institutional choice not to pursue mobility is increasingly untenable 7 Things You Should Know About Mobile IT Educause

Why not just browse? Web Apps

Web apps v. native apps

App World: 7422 Android Market: 70,000 App Catalog & Software Store: 8000 App Store: 225,000 How many native apps? Wikipedia: List of digital distribution platforms for mobile devices

GPS Accelerometer Microphone Camera & Speaker What can native apps do? Photos: @DeathByBokeh, @Sekaino Ai, @dsevilla, @Roadside Guitars on Flickr

Geocaching Runkeeper Foursquare GPS

Red Laser Zoom iShake it Postman Camera

Red Laser Demo Backup

DoodleJump Sleep Cycle Lightsaber The Gavel Accelerometer

Shazam Voice Memo Dragon Dictation Skype Speaker & microphone

Where to start? Photo: @nineohsix

Specify how you use your mobile device for library- or research-related tasks. Harvard University Libraries survey of graduate students

23% HOLLIS Catalog 13% Library hours 9% Mobile library website 8% Access to databases 3% Map of stacks Which library-related tool would you most like to have on your mobile device? Harvard University Libraries survey of graduate students

Mobile OPACS

Legal Research: Lexis

Legal Research: Lexis Get Cases

Legal Research: Westlaw

Legal Research: WestlawNext

Legal Research: Black’s Law Dictionary

IEEE iSSRN Worldcat PubMed EBSCOHost Britannica Mobile Other mobile databases

Challenges Photo: @nineohsix on Flickr

Evernote iMovie Opera IMDB Sudoku Shazam GoodReader Legal Stanza Scrabble Solitaire OpenTable Dictionary Gale’s GoodReads Angry Koi Pond Plants vs. Trafﬁc Jam AccessMyLibrary Birds zombies What apps are law librarians using?

FURTHER READING * Laurie Bridges, et al. “Making the Case For a Fully Mobile Library Web Site: from Floor Maps to the Catalog,” Reference Services Review 38.2 (2009): 309-320. * Educause, 7 Things You Should Know About...Mobile Apps for Learning, May 2010, http://bit.ly/deuOby. * Educause, 7 Things You Should Know About...Mobile IT, February 2010, http://bit.ly/d053gP. * iPhone J.D.: Lawyers Using iPhones, http://www.iphonejd.com. * “Libraries and Patrons on the Move: From Bookmobiles to “M” Libraries,” Reference Services Review 38.1 (2009). * Joan K. Lippincott. “A Mobile Future for Academic Libraries,” Reference Services Review 38.2 (2009), 205-213. * “M-Libraries,” LibSuccess Wiki, http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=M-Libraries. * Mobile Web Application Best Practices [proposed recommendation], W3C, 2010, http://www.w3.org/TR/mwabp. * Small Surfaces [multi-platform mobile design site], http://www.smallsurfaces.com. * USA.gov Mobile Apps, http://apps.usa.gov/.

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