It's a Mobile world world, where do you fit?

It’s a Mobile World, Where do you fit? Delighting library users with creative mobile services Nicole Hennig, MIT Libraries May 14, 2010

4.6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide in 2010

Newspapers 470 million

Cable/satellite TV 850 million

Cars in use 920 million

Landline phones 1.15 billion

PCs in use 1.2 billion

Email users 1.4 billion

Internet users 1.7 billion

Television sets 1.6 billion

Credit cards 1.7 billion

Bank accounts 2.2 billion

FM radios 3.9 billion

Mobile phone subscribers 3.4 billion

Mobile phones in use 3.9 billion

Mobile phone subscriptions in use 4.6 billion

a mobile subscription for half of the population on the planet

Source: Toni Ahonen Almanac 2010 www.7thMassMedia.com

The seven mass media 1 - Print 2 - Recordings 3 - Cinema 4 - Radio 5 - Television 6 - Internet 7 - Mobile phones

Mobilize, Don’t Miniaturize http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/resources/mobilize/

8 ways mobile is unique 1. It’s personal (not shared). 2. Always carried with you. 3. Always on. 4. Has built-in payment mechanism. 5. Available at the point of creative impulse. 6. Has very accurate audience data. 7. Captures social context. 8. Enables augmented reality. Tomi Ahonen Almanac, 2010

What we’re doing at MIT

Worldcat Mobile beta (soon)

Library Anywhere - LibraryThing.com (beta soon)

iPhone app for MIT

A possibility http://www.businessinsider.com/

Some licensed e-resources with mobile web sites or apps - ACS mobile - IOP Science Express - AIP Research - EBSCO mobile - Factiva mobile - Nature.com - HBR Today (Harvard Business Review) - Arxiv.org - Pubsearch Plus (PubMed)

General academic apps - Evernote - Wolfram Alpha - RefWorks Mobile - Zotero Mobile - Papers - GoodReader (PDF reader) - iAnnotate PDF (annotate PDFs) - RedLaser

Foursquare - adding tips

Virtual + Physical world

Librarians as early adopters content knowledge + technology knowledge

iPads for 4 librarians from our User Experience group

- checked out 12 times so far (in 1 week) - brief survey on return -sign: “the iPad is in” or “the iPad is out” :)

What was your favorite app? Magic Piano YouTube Polyrhythms Soundrop O-GAWA

Were there any apps missing? Anything you expected to see that we should add? Wolfram Alpha BeatMaker NY Times Chinese character writing A better piano app

How might you use an iPad for your course work? - The elibrary had some good books. I could see using that for a research paper. - Could download problem sets for classes and use instead of printing them out. - Electronic music class. - Loading daily readings instead of printing them out.

Comments - Awesome! - The apps are amazing. - The piano is not realistic. - I enjoyed testing out the iPad.

Future ideas - Circulate more iPads in the Fall in other libraries on campus. (our 3 Kindles have a 1-year waiting list!)

What librarians can do: - Evaluate ebook reading software - Evaluate and recommend apps - Teach classes on productivity & info management apps

Reading ebooks

Kindle on iPad

Apple’s store is small compared to Amazon

Read your books on many platforms & devices

apps vs. mobile web

apps vs. mobile web both are in our future

Mobile web site Desktop app Mobile app

Mobile web site Sync Desktop app Mobile app

some uses of iPad in academic life (and future tablets)

having all your articles and books with you and searching them

GoodReader

iAnnotate PDF annotating PDFs

shared whiteboards Padboard

remote control of laptop/desktop

faculty annotated textbooks

diagrams and mind-mapping iThoughts

Future: sketch interpreting software

interactive books The Elements

The Elements - ebook for iPad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiEqf5wb3g

accessibility features

watching videos for coursework

taking notes, organizing your notes Penultimate

Image viewers for archival content http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHK3E4N7w6o

Loaning out tech devices http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/ 2010/04/08/your-ipads- are-available-d-h-hill-530- p-m-today/

8 ways mobile is unique 1. It’s personal (not shared). 2. Always carried with you. 3. Always on. 4. Has built-in payment mechanism. 5. Available at the point of creative impulse. 6. Has very accurate audience data. 7. Captures social context. 8. Enables augmented reality. Tomi Ahonen Almanac, 2010

Librarians - mobilize, don’t miniaturize - become early adopters - lead your users into best uses of technology and information

Thank you! http://twitter.com/nic221 http://delicious.com/nic221/mobile http://delicious.com/nic221/iphone http://delicious.com/nic221/ipad http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/

(Bonus video - not shown at event) Chris Anderson Explains iPad Plans

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