Description
We are well aware that most members of our campus communities are highly dependent on mobile technologies. What are the implications for libraries? What are the implications for teaching these technologies and via these technologies? How can we keep our colleagues up to speed in this maelstrom of technology? We can now use WorldCat.org on our mobile phones, and EBSCOhost just released its customized application for mobile device users. How can we integrate these new services into an already full menu of services? How do we get started, and which services should we be providing? How can we best integrate these devices into formal and ubiquitous learning? As with most technological developments, the move towards mobile is rapid. This is not a time to sit on the sidelines and wait while other campus units develop services for mobile users, and license content for mobile devices. However, smaller libraries with limited budgets and staff cannot simply jump on the mobile bandwagon without due deliberation and planning. Libraries must make informed, deliberate choices.
This group panel will lay out issues that should be discussed within individual campuses that might wish to examine their own role in the move to mobile services.
What types of mobile devices are being used on your campus? Are there disciplines already implementing mobile devices in their curriculum? Which user groups might you target specific library services towards?
Should the library serve as a training center for mobile devices and the use of mobile content? What are a few ways libraries might provide instruction and information literacy for mobile device users? How can libraries most effectively integrate mobile devices into formal and informal instruction?
What are usability and functionality issues that libraries must address as they provide website access to mobile users? A demonstration will be provided on how libraries can use Smartphone Browser Emulators to test applications.
What are the implications for the physical spaces in libraries given the use of mobile devices?
Start Date
18-3-2010 3:40 PM
Mobile Handout USD.pdf
And One Device Will Rule Them All: Make Way for Mobile Technologies
We are well aware that most members of our campus communities are highly dependent on mobile technologies. What are the implications for libraries? What are the implications for teaching these technologies and via these technologies? How can we keep our colleagues up to speed in this maelstrom of technology? We can now use WorldCat.org on our mobile phones, and EBSCOhost just released its customized application for mobile device users. How can we integrate these new services into an already full menu of services? How do we get started, and which services should we be providing? How can we best integrate these devices into formal and ubiquitous learning? As with most technological developments, the move towards mobile is rapid. This is not a time to sit on the sidelines and wait while other campus units develop services for mobile users, and license content for mobile devices. However, smaller libraries with limited budgets and staff cannot simply jump on the mobile bandwagon without due deliberation and planning. Libraries must make informed, deliberate choices.
This group panel will lay out issues that should be discussed within individual campuses that might wish to examine their own role in the move to mobile services.
What types of mobile devices are being used on your campus? Are there disciplines already implementing mobile devices in their curriculum? Which user groups might you target specific library services towards?
Should the library serve as a training center for mobile devices and the use of mobile content? What are a few ways libraries might provide instruction and information literacy for mobile device users? How can libraries most effectively integrate mobile devices into formal and informal instruction?
What are usability and functionality issues that libraries must address as they provide website access to mobile users? A demonstration will be provided on how libraries can use Smartphone Browser Emulators to test applications.
What are the implications for the physical spaces in libraries given the use of mobile devices?