Using Mobile Devices for Library Services
Posted by Brian Kelly on July 1st, 2010
CILIP is running an Executive Briefing Day on Becoming upwardly mobile on 15th Sept. 2010 at CILIP HQ. Aimed at all sectors of the library community (public, academic, special and national), CILIP and event partner OCLC have brought together nine industry experts ‘to analyse how institutions can embrace mobile technology to maximise benefits for existing and potential users’.
The press release continues: ‘Experts predict that the mobile internet market will double the desktop market in five years time. It is crucial for libraries to rise to the challenge of making their services available at the user’s point of need.’ Among the questions to be tackled are:
- What should libraries be doing in this area?
- What changes are on the horizon?
- What are the risks of non-adoption?
- What are the mobile strategies other libraries are currently adopting?
July 9th, 2010 at 10:44 am
There’s been some work at the University of Bath Library, in particular by Kate Robinson on mobile uses in library environments, especially with QR codes (linking up with the University Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office). There’s some papers on the topic available from our repository under Kate’s publications – http://opus.bath.ac.uk/view/person_id/732.html
Thanks,
Kara