M libraries Conference - May 2011

The Third International m-libraries Conference Brisbane 11-13 May 2011 Jon Steingiesser Senior Web Coordinator, Information Services

Intro The Third International m-libraries Conference Brisbane 11-13 May 2011 The conference explored and shared work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move’, via a growing plethora of mobile and handheld devices. Previous Conferences: - 2007 Open Uni in UK - 2009 Uni of British Columbia & Athabasca Uni (Open)

Conference Participants

Day 1 – First Workshop (AUC - Apple)
App Demo – Yellowhead Regional (Alberta, US)
Abilene Christian Universtiy – Video - Every student is given an iPhone
App Demo - Inkling

Day 1 – Second Workshop Carmen Kazakoff-Lane ( Brandon Uni, Canada)
Screencasts - Software that enables capturing actions on the screen e.g. camtasia
The cloud - Screencasts.com, Vimeo, Blip.TV, Repository
Video and HTML 5 http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html
ANTS - ANimated Tutorial Sharing Projects
Libraries working together to create open source learning objects - http://ants.wetpaint.com/
Online Library Tours – e.g. Griffith University

Day 1 - Evening Networking

Day 2 - Conference Keynote Steven Abrams
“ A lot of us are a bunch of Lisa Simpsons creating services for Bart”
The phone is the heart of the user experience
Libraries are the heart of the campus

Day 2 - Conference Keynote Steven Abrams
Students are focused at the lesson and event level
Essay, test, exam
Library at the heart of the community but no longer just physical
DO USABILITY STUDIES – do not assume your know your users

Kolding main Public Library Denmark Nicolai Dupont Heidemann
Mobile literacy at a public library
Giving ALL employees smartphones (as suggested at mLibraries conf in Vancouver)
Need to have employees that can use this technology and communicate it to users
Project –
develop staff mobile skills
use these skills in the development of mob services
develop a mobile learning model for staff

Kolding main Public Library Denmark Nicolai Dupont Heidemann
Criteria for selecting phone – Number one was price then usability.

The Open University UK Hassan Sheikh and Keren Mills

The Open University UK

Charles Darwin University Julie Cartwright, Sally Cummings, Bernadette Royal, Michelle Turner and JoAnne Witt
Creating an online and physical treasure hunt with QR codes for smartphones
Visiting different sections within the library for Smartphone users and speaking to staff for non Smartphone users
In each section a student would receive a clue to collect words from each page or section which would then form a phrase
Finding a record and an item on the shelf with a clue inside the main cover stuck on or blue tacked
Linking the physical to the Virtual

Treasure Hunt Results
Special library guide to explain the hunt, links to QR code readers etc.
Tweeting and generic email lists to promote the hunt
Ran over 4 weeks with 223 participants. Feedback on smartphones, QR codes 153 were online and 70 on campus. 10% used the QR codes
Used bitly to create shorten URL for QR codes which gather stats on Analytics
Survey monkey for feedback

University of Technology Sydney – Sophie McDonald
There's a librarian in my pocket: mobile information literacy at UTS Library
http://prezi.com/zj3gsgcbofjh/theres-a-librarian-in-my-pocket-mobile-information-literacy-at-uts-library/

Bavarian State Library Germany - Klaus Ceynowa
Video about the Library (iPad)
93,600 Manuscripts
20,000 Incunabula (Books printed before 1500)
140,000 16 th Century printed books
National competence center for digitization Technology and Workflows

Bavarian State Library Germany - Klaus Ceynowa
More than 100 projects since 1997, third-party-funded by National and European funding bodies
520.000 titles online, approx. 400 Terabyte Data
Mass digitization with state-of-the-art technology (Scan-Robotic)
Public-Private-Partnership with Google(1 million Books , 17th-19th Century), contract signed in Febr. 2007

Scan Robots at MDZ

Mobile Internet
“ By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.”

Mobile only ...
Global mobile statistics 2011: URL: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats

Digital Library-Content as an “App” – Why?
Apps: designed for the mobile internet
Apps: direct connection to the services we want, bypassing search on the web
Apps: customized for specific purposes, for enriched and enhanced usability and visibility of specific content

Digital Library-Content as an “App” – Why?
Apps: content as an instantly accessible “product”, not as the result of “filtering”, “scoping”, “refining” of an all-inclusive, vast content repository (Europeana etc.)
Apple App-Store: best-known, world-wide accessible “channel” for distributing specific content and services to a huge customer base

iPad/iPhone-Apps of the Bavarian State Library
“ Famous Books” Full Title: “ Treasures of the Bavarian State Library ” (released June 2010)
50 unique, ultra-rare manuscripts & early printed
• “ Oriental Books” (released May 2011)
• Digital Books formatted for the high-res, colour-brillant displays of iPad and iPhone
• Both Apps provide the complete books, readable from the first to the last page and: it‘s free!

Augmented Reality (AR)
Layering of Digital Information over the visual representation of the real world.
Usually presented via a smartphone-camera picture .
Is a driver of the transformation from the stationary to the mobile internet.
Blending of “digital” and “real” world

Augmented Reality App “Ludwig II”
Augmented Reality Application about “Ludwig II” (life, politics, places, castles)
Multimedia Content from the Bavarian State Library & cooperating Archives and Museums
Main Features
Location-Based Teasers & In-Depth-Information,
3D-Augmented Reality (Reconstructions of planned Architecture etc.)
‘ Goodies’ (Video Expert-Statements, Calender Push Messages, Collectible Major Sites 3D-Models etc.)

Having all the resources you need from your university at your fingertips

If we don’t go mobile at UWA …
“ When we get to a point that a mobile version is expected of whatever content we want to interact with, not having a mobile version may cut-off desire to consume that content.”
Inside Higher ed: Challenges and opportunities of the small screen, November 19, 2009

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