Category Archives: Events
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” …
M-libraries Conference – From margin to mainstream
On 24th-26th September 2012, The Open University hosted a group of 163 delegates from 19 different countries for the Fourth International M-libraries Conference. It was the first of the m-libraries conferences I have been able to attend in person, though I have followed others from afar. The theme of the conference, From margin to mainstream: …
CILIP Mobile Technology Executive Briefing
I was invited to present at CILIP’s Mobile Technology Executive Briefing on July 19th, and really enjoyed listening to the other presentations. There was a variety of presentations on a number of different themes: M-libs: building a mobile library community - Jo Alcock. Birmingham City University Accessing Digital Resources with Public Electronic Displays and Mobile Phones - George …
Handheld Librarian Online Conference 7 – registration now open
Registration is now open for the 7th Handheld Librarian Online Conference on 15th-16th August 2012. I attended Handheld Librarian 5 (see my post on my personal blog) and found it really useful; I’d definitely recommend attending. It’s great value for money and even if the timezones don’t work out for watching it live you can …
Perspectives on mobile delivery
by joeyanne Last week I delivered a workshop in collaboration with Gill Needham from Open University. We’d both been invited to give a presentation at the Cake and Conversation: The power of a Library in the palm of your hand event with a practical focus to members of staff at University of Bath. We thought it …
LITA Mobile Computing Interest Group meeting at ALA Annual Conference 2012
This blog post was originally posted as a guest blog post on the ACRL TechConnect blog. I attended the ALA Annual Conference 2012 and was up bright and early to get to the 8am Sunday morning session from the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Mobile Computing Interest Group (MCIG) session. It included four presentations on …
Upcoming events
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be attending some events to talk about the JISC-funded mobile library support project as well as share some of the evidence we’ve been collecting throughout the project. Cake and conversation: the power of the library in your hand – University of Bath (12th July) Later today I’ll be …
Fourth International m-libraries conference – early bird rate extended
The JISC m-library support project is proud to be presenting a session at this event and would like to encourage you to attend – hopefully we’ll see some of you there! The fourth International m-libraries Conference – 24 – 26 September 2012 “From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries” Mobile technology has …
Mlibs event – lightning talks
In addition to the more in-depth breakout sessions at the mobile technologies in libraries: information sharing event, we also had a series of lightning talks. Each presenter had 5 minutes to give a very brief overview of a topic they wanted to talk about – anything went as long as it fitted into the broad …
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