Category Archives: Mobile devices
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” …
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… …
Which library content providers are utilising mobile technologies?
During the course of the project, we’ve been keeping track of which library content providers are utilising mobile technologies, by speaking to suppliers at exhibitions and by checking details via their own websites and guides produced by libraries. There are a variety of different approaches, which we thought would be useful information to share. Not …
Copac Mobile case study
Many service providers have been through processes to determine what, if any, support their users would like to enable access to their service via mobile devices. For some this is due to customer demand (i.e. statistics showing people are accessing their services/resources via mobile devices), whilst for others this is from customer feedback or anecdotal …
Mlibs event – Delivering existing library-owned content (e.g. historical maps) on mobile devices
This is part of a series of blog posts based on the sessions held at the Mobile technologies in libraries: information sharing event. More resources from the day are available at the event Lanyrd page. Ed Fay (London School of Economics) presented a demonstration of the PhoneBooth project (part of the JISC mobile infrastructure for libraries programme) during the …
Mlibs event – Bibliographic management on mobile devices
This is part of a series of blog posts based on the sessions held at the Mobile technologies in libraries: information sharing event. More resources from the day are available at the event Lanyrd page. Mike Jones (University of Bristol) presented during the afternoon breakout sessions on bibliographic management on mobile devices. Mike gave an overview of the …
Native mobile app vs mobile web
A common topic that seems to be mentioned during discussions on mobile is whether a native mobile app or mobile web is most appropriate. What’s the difference? A native app is an application that is downloaded to a mobile device, can make use of the devices hardware such as the camera and geolocation, and often …
What is mobile?
One of the main purposes of this project is to gather evidence including case studies and examples of good practice around mobile technology in libraries. But what do we mean by mobile? Mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous in today’s society in the UK, in fact according to Ofcom’s latest statistics (checked November 2011), 91% of the adult UK …
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