INLS 490-121: Collaborative Writing Exercise/Mobile

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Mobile 2.0?

What does that mean for the future of Library 2.0?


“Imagine... Libraries are already offering amazing services through the use of the mobile Web. Imagine where we'll be in a year or two as mobile Internet adoption continues to increase and portable devices steadily improve."—LTR 44:5, p. 38

“The fifth issue of Library Technology Reports this year looks to the very near future — and for some libraries on the move with the mobile Web,it highlights libraries' mobile activities already developed for the present.” ----

Mobile collections

This includes audiobooks, ebooks, audio language courses, streaming music, films, etc. which can be used on mobile devices. These collections can either be downloaded from the library websites on user's own mobile devices or libraries lend mobile devices with the collections already on them.

Mobile instruction

This includes the application of mobile devices for library instruction. Can be text-based, audio or video. For audio-based instruction, see also the section on Podcasting.


Useful Mobile Sites Already Launched

  • National Libraries of Medicine (http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/) -- Provides searches for PubMed, PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome ) and Disease Associations.
  • RefWorks (http://www.refworks.com/mobile/) -- Access your saved research and easily add new items. You'll need the groupcode. The groupcode can be found on Blackboard under student/faculty information or in the email that you received from Refworks when you signed up for your account.


Mobile interfaces

Just some of the libraries that already OPACs or websites which are especially designed for viewing on mobile devices.(our own DUKE University, and NC State, of North Carolina being one of them)

Alan Livingston, of the Educause quarterly calls this trend a “Multi mobile Revolution,” and asks if this is in fact the revolution that no one has noticed. In the past two months, this Multi Mobile behavior has taken two great steps with respects to Librarianship. The first being the opening of Ref Works this March, 2009. “Researchers and students are increasingly on the go, but need to stay highly productive,” says Colleen Stempien, Executive Director of Operations for RefWorks-COS. “RefMobile puts RefWorks’ world-class research management tools at the fingertips of researchers whenever they need them, wherever they happen to be.” The Second was the continued expansion of the WorldCat Mobile pilot announced on April 2nd. In fact, Mobile Library access has already gained such high approval with researchers and students, “Open Source” access to Mobile Web Library Portals is already a part of discussion. So, as this "revolution" is apparently occurring at such rapid speeds, what does the future hold for education and librarianship.

The Future of Mobile 2.0? Next Generation Pod-Space?

  • Or are we already there?

References

  • [Kroski, Ellyssa On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies. Library Technology Reports, 2008, vol. 44, n. 5, pp. 1-48. [Journal Article (Print/Paginated)]
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