Category Archives: Evidence gathering
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 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 …
End of project survey – confidence in implementing mobile technologies
This is part of a series of blog posts on the end of project fact finding survey. We were interested to find out the confidence level in implementing mobile technologies. The figure below shows the results: Fortunately, the majority of respondents (72%) felt confident or very confident about implementing mobile technologies in the libraries. However, 26% …
End of project survey – barriers/challenges to implementation
This is part of a series of blog posts on the end of project fact finding survey. We added some additional categories to the question about barriers/challenges based on the open responses to the last survey. We also asked an additional question about the primary barrier to discover which are the biggest barriers at present. As …
End of project survey – future m-library initiatives
This is part of a series of blog posts on the end of project fact finding survey. Interestingly, when asked if their library was considering using mobile technologies to support any aspect of the service or resources provision in future, less people responded yes (81.8%) than in the first survey (90.4%). This still shows the majority …
End of project survey – current m-library initiatives
This is part of a series of blog posts on the end of project fact finding survey. In the first fact finding survey, we discovered a number of different areas libraries were working on. Using the broad categories from the results of the first survey, we used the end of project survey as an opportunity …
End of project survey – overview
Thanks again to those of you who completed the end of project fact finding survey we ran earlier this year. As before (see blog posts from previous fact finding survey), we’ll be publishing summary blog posts over the next couple of weeks sharing the findings from the different parts of the survey. There were 138 …
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.
How are libraries using QR codes?
This is the third post in a tips and tricks series about QR codes. The full series includes an introduction to QR codes, tracking QR codes, examples of how they are being used in libraries, and best practice tips. So how are libraries using QR codes? Some of the more popular uses are listed in this …
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