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Going Mobile and Social at Bedfordshire

Peter GodwinUniversity of Bedfordshire

13 June 2011

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The Bedfordshire experience

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What is Bedfordshire?

2.0 moves on

It’s mobile and social

The Bedfordshire experience

They don’t know what they don’t know!

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“Students struggled with processing results and finding the good, relevant stuff they need ... they may lack the skills for selecting the most relevant results they need for solving information problems in their daily lives.”

How college students use the Web to conduct everyday life researchby Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg.First Monday, Volume 16, Number 4 - 4 April 2011http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3484/2857

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Do they share?

The nerds are still the minoritywww.flickr.com/photos/36330825983@N01/493046910

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Information on the move

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How will it affect the way people access and use information?

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Who are you?

Geotagging

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They text and share

music

Augmented reality

Mobile and social

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What’s happening to Information

Literacy?

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Mobile devices survey April 2011

172 Masters level Business students

116 consider they are using a mobile device as a learning tool

20 have Android

25 iPhone

3 iPad

2 e-book reader

24 Blackberry

49 netbook/laptop/tablet

27 know of ourAndroid app. to access library services and 10 have used it.

36 know of QR codes to access e-books and videos, and 21 use them.

Mobile devices FocusGroups 9 June 2011

Masters level Business students

3 groups (2,2,5)

None had done the survey

8 of 9 said used mobiles as learning tool

Some use of mobile Library and Library Catalogue apps.

Interest in QR codes but little used.

Valued access offered 24/7 wherever situated especially at examo time.

Main lessons :

We are on the right track

It is early days yet

Great need for promotion

Costs are still a barrier

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Mobile devices are adding a new twist to Information Literacy

They provide valuable ways to deliver services and communicate with our users

Promotion is critical

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peter.godwin@beds.ac.uk

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