Author Archives: Jo Alcock
QR QR: quick referencing with QR codes
This guest blog post is based on a current QR code project to help students with referencing. Nic Howorth and Sarah Munks are Subject Librarians at the University of Huddersfield. Sarah is based at the Barnsley campus and has responsibility for Art, Design and Architecture and Music subject areas. Nic looks after the School …
Evaluating QR code generators
We’ve previously shared some tips and advice about how to use QR codes, but today we’re looking a slightly different angle – how do you decide which tool to use? To cover this topic we have a guest blog post from Neil Ford, Academic Liaison Development Manager for Library and Learning Support at Bournemouth University. Neil …
What’s in an app? Mobile-ising the library at Birmingham City University
This guest blog post is written by Annmarie Lee, an Assistant Liaison Librarian – Enquiry Services for Library and Learning Resources at Birmingham City University. On a day to day basis she is part of a team that provide enquiry services at the University’s Health library and Art and Design libraries. She has participated in several …
American Libraries Live: Mobile Services – the library in your pocket
Last week, American Libraries Live held a discussion hosted by Jason Griffey with contributors Maurice Coleman and Robin Hastings. They discussed what they mean by mobile, gave examples of some of the ways libraries are using mobile technologies, and answered questions posed by viewers. You can view a recording of the session by clicking on …
ALA LITA MCIG virtual meeting
I recently attended a webinar hosted by the American Library Association Library and Information Technology Association Mobile Computing Interest Group. I created a Storify to share the presentations and related resources. Unfortunately I’m not able to embed the Storify but you can access it from the link below. View the story “LITA MCIG virtual meeting” …
Library mobile apps – what features do they have?
Myself and one of my colleagues at Birmingham City University are interested in finding out what functionality is currently being offered by libraries through mobile apps. If your library has a mobile app, please complete our very short survey to share with us what your mobile app includes. We’ll be sharing the aggregated results on …
Report from LIR/AGI Mobile Technologies Symposium, Dublin, 22nd November 2012
Time for another guest blog post, this time from Hugh Murphy who presented at the LIR/AGI Mobile Technologies Symposium. The day generated some really interesting discussion on social media, and all presentations and videos are now available at http://lirgroup.heanet.ie/mobiletech. First a brief introduction to Hugh… I have the wonderfully protracted title of Senior Librarian, Collection Management …
A Dose of (Augmented) Reality: Exploring possible uses within a library setting
One of the areas mentioned in our surveys as something to investigate for future was Augmented Reality. Birmingham City University library’s Mobile Technlogies Working Group have been considering different ways of using augmented reality as this guest post by Anthony Humphries demonstrates (recreated with kind permission from BCU eLibrary blog). A brief introduction to Anthony… …
Report on m-library activity
The final report from the results of the end of project survey (responses collected July-August 2012) has now been published. You can view the series of blog posts for overviews on specific areas, or view the full PDF report online (also embedded below).
End of project survey – methods to support current and future m-library initiatives
This is part of a series of blog posts on the end of project fact finding survey. Respondents were asked to indicate from a pre-determined list the methods that they would use to support current and future m-library initiatives in their library/information service. Most respondents plan to use a selection of sources, including (in order of …
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