Category Archives: Community building
Project article – Supporting the experimental and innovative m-library community
CILIP Multimedia Information and Technology Group (MMIT) have recently released a special edition of their journal on mobile technologies. The journal is available to MMIT members, and an open access version of our article is available by clicking the image below.
M-libraries community – future plans
The JISC m-library support project has been listening to the community to understand the needs and how we can help support them in a sustainable way after the project ends. It’s clear from the number of subscribers to both the project blog and to the community website that there is a lot of interest in …
Mobile technologies in libraries: information sharing event
Many thanks to those of you who attended the mobile technologies in libraries event in Birmingham earlier this week. Over 50 attendees joined us for a keynote from James Clay, eight lightning talks from a variety of different libraries, and two workshop sessions (from a choice of eight). Myself and the organising team would like …
Mobile technologies in libraries: information sharing event
The information sharing event organised by the project was fully booked in less than 24 hours and we’ll be welcoming 60 attendees to Birmingham on Tuesday 8th May – many apologies for those of you on the waitlist who didn’t manage to get a place. In addition to our keynote speaker, James Clay, we have …
Invitation to join m-libraries online community
As part of the JISC m-library community support project and based on the feedback provided from our survey at the beginning of the project, we have created an online community for anyone interested in mobile technologies in libraries. This is an experimental development and we would like to invite you to join the community and …
Booking now open for Mobile technologies in libraries: information sharing event
The booking is now open for this free information sharing event on Tuesday 8th May 2012 in central Birmingham organised by the JISC m-library community support project for all library practitioners interested in how mobile technologies can be utilised by libraries. Further details available below and at the event registration page: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3016555599 Purpose of event …
Survey analysis – What would you like from an m-libraries community?
Respondents were asked what they would like to see provided by an m-libraries community. A few respondents were supportive of the need for a community resource, but did not provide any comments as to how it could be configured. Many respondents however provided suggestions. These suggestions are summarised below (please note that there is some …
Survey analysis – areas for further information
Respondents were asked whether there was further information that would support them in making decisions regarding the use of mobile technologies. The following outlines the nature of the responses received. It should be noted that the categories below are not mutually exclusive. Experience of others There was a need to be able to share experiences …
Survey analysis – barriers/challenges to implementation
Respondents were asked to indicate any barriers or challenges they had to implementing mobile initiatives. They were given the opportunity to provide open responses as well as choose from a preselected range of answers. The bar chart below shows the distribution of responses: Some of the open responses provided further information in areas that were …
Fact finding survey – overview
Many thanks to those of you who completed the fact finding survey we recently published – we had an incredible response and we’re now looking through all the data. We’ll be publishing a number of blog posts over the next couple of weeks to share the findings, and will be using some of the examples …
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