The document discusses the increasing use of mobile devices and the mobile internet. It notes that smartphone sales surpassed PC sales in 2010 and that mobile phones are predicted to become the most common web device by 2013. Mobile internet usage has increased 3000% in 3 years. The document asks questions about how students use mobile devices for learning and seeks information. It discusses the need for libraries to offer more services on mobile and ensure accessibility of content on all devices to remain relevant. Skills for librarians in a mobile environment are discussed.

2. Questions to consider
0 How many UWC students use a mobile device? What kinds
of devices? What are you using them for? How often for
learning?
0 How do you/ our students seek information? How many
text, chat or Skype?
0 Are you aware of the mobile internet? Which mobile
websites do you use?
0 Are mobile devices used in T&L on our campus? E.g.
Clickers, iTunes
0 On which devices do you access social media?
0 Which skills do librarians need for mobile internet?
0 What do libraries offer mobile users?
0 By making more services available on mobile devices are
libraries making themselves more relevant?

3. “Smartphone sales eclipsed PC sales for the
first time in late 2010.Some analysts predict
mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most
common web device worldwide by 2013”
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2012/04/going-mobile-library-
web-sites-services.html

6. “across the world, mobile internet usage has
surged 3 000 percent in 3 years” Google
Australia CEO in 2011.
www.cnn.com
0 “Its popularity is
rising at a pace 8x
faster than the take
up of desktop
internet in 1990s”

7. “When we get to a point
where 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”
[Source: Inside higher ed
November 19, 2009]

8. Horizon reports
http://www.nmc.org
0 Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less [2011]
0 Electronic Books
0 Mobiles
0 Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less [2012]
0 Mobile Apps
0 Tablet Computing
0 Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less [2013]
0 Massively Open Online Courses
0 Tablet Computing
0 Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
0 Big Data and Learning Analytics
0 Game-Based Learning

9. IFLA trends report
http://trends.ifla.org/files/trends/assets/in
sights-from-the-ifla-trend-report_v3.pdf
“mobile devices become the main medium for access to
information, content and services. As a result, new
social and economic groups are empowered through
increased access to health and education resources, as
well as e-government and financial services”.
“New technologies are transforming the global
information economy. But each new generation of
digital books, apps, databases, mobile and now
wearable technologies redefines the boundaries of
privacy and data protection – and responsibilities for
the management of both – within libraries”.

10. Pew Internet Report
http://www.pewinternet.org
Digital Life in 2025
“Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less
visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and
ill”
The rise of online video http://youtu.be/mGgBY3yBpYY
Mobile
“…mobile connectivity through … smartphones & tablet computers,
made any time-anywhere access to information a reality for the
vast majority of Americans. Mobile devices have changed the way
people think about how and when they can communicate and
gather information by making just-in-time and real-time
encounters possible. They have also affected the way people
allocate their time and attention”.
http://www.pewinternet.org/three-technology-revolutions/

11. What are the implications of
mobile searching for libraries?
0 Change is constant –
0 Users expect seamless access to all kinds of content
on portable devices
0 Privacy becomes an issue – The Right to be Forgotten
0 Mobile access requires greater wireless access
0 Students want to print from mobile devices
0 Use of multiple devices which imply multiple access
platforms because a mobile phone app (both android
& iOS) is different from a tablet app – DRM challenges

12. What skills do librarians need?
0 IT skills
0 User focus
0 Communication
0 Personal traits
0 Collaboration
0 Research & development
0 http://www.slideshare.net/joeyanne/experimenting-
with-mobiletechnologiesinlibraries

13. What do libraries offer mobile users?
0 Content (articles, books)
0 Tools and services (Enquiries; sms service; mobile
catalogue; loaning mobile devices;
0 Who? Distance education students? Blended learning
students?
0 What kinds of devices? smart phones, iPods, MP3
players, cameras, laptops/notebook , PDAs, Clickers
0 Ebook lending on Kindles & iPads
0 Booking rooms using QR codes outside the room to
check when free

14. QR code treasure hunt

15. What is this book about?

16. Library Front runners

17. https://mobile.duke.edu

21. Bibliography
0 May 10, 2012: Mobile Technologies; Future of the Web
http://www.cni.org/topics/mobile-technologies/may-
10-2012-mobile-technologies/ [podcast 12 mins]
0 Handheld Librarians’ conferences
http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/
0 http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/health_sciences_reso
urces_for_mobile_devices Good example of mobile
apps created by a university
0 http://libguides.com/community.php?m=s&it=0&sea
rch=mobile+apps
0 http://socialmediaweek.org/lagos/2014/02/03/afric
an-digital-statistics-2014/#.U2YordzlfwI

22. Bibliography
0 Mobile learning resources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M5skjHCBh
mbvQDRpr4PCMFW1fnmGE9QsPc_6JFaG5go/edit?hl=
en&pli=1
0 Dresselhaus, A. 2012. Mobile Technologies &
Academics: Do Students Use Mobile Technology in
their Academic Lives and are Librarians Ready to
Meet this New
Challenge?http://www.ala.org/lita/ital/sites/ala.org.l
ita.ital/files/content/prepub/dresselhaus.pdf