Category Archives: Project news
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).
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-GROUP discussion list
As mentioned in an earlier post, we’ve been working on getting an email list set up to facilitate discussion around mobile technologies in libraries. The list is now live – please feel free to subscribe and start using the list for sharing resources, asking questions, and generating discussions on topics of relevance to the m-libraries …
End of project report
1. Major Outputs The major outputs of the project have been: Project blog – currently 341 subscribers, total of 52 blog posts during course of project Collated resources tagged with mlibs on social bookmarking websites (303 on Delicious, 379 on Pinboard) Collected case studies: QR codes at Senate House Library: a case study – submitted by Andrew Preater …
Pathways To Best Practice guides
We’ve recently launched a new feature on the blog – the Pathways to Best Practice guides. This series of documents brings together the resources we’ve been collecting during the project as well as examples of initiatives and the lessons learned which should help you if you are thinking of implementing something similar. The Pathways To …
Case studies page
Throughout the course of the projects we’ve been collecting a number of case studies; some of which we’ve shared via the blog, and some via the test community site. We’ve now created a page to bring all these together with a brief overview of each case study – this can be accessed from the menu …
Mobile technologies in libraries – end of project survey
The m-libraries support project is part of JISC’s Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme running from November 2011 until September 2012. The project aims to build a collection of useful resources and case studies based on current developments using mobile technologies in libraries, and to foster a community for those working in the m-library area or …
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 …
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 …
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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