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Mobile Devices and Libraries
Here to stay!
Thomas Frey“Future Libraries”
Starkmedia.com
Presented by Carol A. BrachEngineering Librarian
ASEE 2012 San Antonio, TXJune 13, 2012
A common site on campus
Facts and figures:
Use of the Notre Dame LibrariesMobile App in 2012
Why academic libraries are “going mobile”
From the Notre Dame Spring 2012 Mobile Summit:
• “Mobile is overtaking traditional web-based use of many ND webpages” Erik Runyon, Manager of Interactive Development AgencyND
• “Research ON mobile, research WITH mobile are the future expectations.”
Nick Laneman, Director of Notre Dame’s Wireless Institute
Canalys estimates that 487.4 million smart phones were shipped in 2011, an increase of over 60% from 2010.
More than 104 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2012, up 14 percent versus November. Reported by comScore.
“Global sales of smartphones will top 1 billion units in 2014, according to one analyst’s estimate.” reported by Todd Wasserman, Mashable’s business editor.
“Mobile is ramping faster than Desktop Internet and will be bigger than most think…
…regarding the pace of change, we believe more users will likely connect to the Internet via
mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years”
http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/mobile_internet_report.pdf
Morgan Stanley reports:
This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter
mainstream use in the “first horizon” of one year or less.
Note: The 2011 report predicted that “internet capable mobile devices would out-number computers within
the next year.” That means now.
NMC Horizon Report 2012 Higher Education Edition
Web-enabled phones have access to all of the same online resources that are available on
laptop or desktop computers.
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How Libraries are going mobile:To “App” or not to “App”?
A recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education states: “…colleges are shifting their attention from stand-alone applications that can be downloaded from an app store to mobile-optimized versions of their Web sites.”
“There are two goals, one is for library web pages to have a single source that adapts to the particular device - it is called responsive design. The 2nd goal is to have appropriate features; the desktop experience might have more functionality, the mobile one less functionality based on the particular application. It is really about the applications responding to the devices while also getting the efficiency of single sourcing.” --Mark Dehmlow Head, Web and Information Technology Systems Department, University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries
How else can academic libraries support content on mobile devices?
Include mobile information literacy skills in standard library instruction
Support Metasearch or other unified resource discovery tools on library mobile websites that search more than one database at a time http://xerxes.library.nd.edu.proxy.library.nd.edu/quicksearch/databases/subject/computer-engineering
Seek support from database vendors for searching using mobile devices
Construct LibGuides and other helpful tools. WPI has a Libguide for Research Apps: http://libguides.wpi.edu/content.php?pid=116812&sid=2530434
Nature IEEE
Examples of currently available mobile research apps and how they deliver full text content:
The Mobile Libraries Wiki ishttp://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=M-Libraries
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki is created by Meredith Farkas, Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University in Oregon.
For more information:
Old Book Mobile
New Book MobileiPhone with wheels by Libby
Bibliography – Mobile Devices and Libraries Anon. 2012. Horizon Report 2012 Higher Education Edition. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2012.pdf
Booth, Char, California Community College. 2011. California Community College Student Library & Technology Engagement Survey: 2011 Pilot, Final Report. http://www.slideshare.net/charbooth/california-community-college-student-library-technology-engagement-survey-2011-pilot-final-report
Canalys estimates that 487.4 million smart phones were shipped in 2011, an increase of over 60% from 2010. http://www.canalys.com/static/press_release/2012/canalys-press-release-030212-smart-phones-overtake-client-pcs-2011_0.pdf
comScore. 2012. "More than 104 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2012, up 14 percent versus November." http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/4/comScore_Reports_February_2012_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
Havelka, Stefanie, and Alevtina Verbovetskaya. 2012. “Mobile information literacy.” C&RL News: 22-23. http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/1/22.full.pdf+html
Morgan Stanley reports "The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.” http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/mobile_internet_report.pdf
Naturehttp://www.nature.com.proxy.library.nd.edu/mobileapps/ Rauch, Marta, “12 Key Mobile Usability Guidelines to Implement Now” http://www.slideshare.net/IntelligentContent/rauch-mobile-usabilityintelligentcontent2012
Rauch, Marta,” Mobile Documentation: Usability Guidelines, and Considerations for Providing Documentation on Kindle, Tablets, and Smartphones” Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2011 IEEE International DOI:10.1109/IPCC.2011.6087221 Publication Year: 2011 , Page(s): 1- 13. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6087221&isnumber=6087180
Salisbury, Lutishoor, Jozef Laincz, and Jeremy J. Smith, “Science and Technology Undergraduate Students' Use of the Internet, Cell Phones and Social Networking Sites to Access Library Information” Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship No. 69 Spring, 2012, DOI:10.5062/F4SB43PDhttp://www.istl.org/12-spring/refereed3.html
Seeholzer, Jamie, and Joseph A Salem. 2012. “Library on the Go : A Focus Group Study of the Mobile Web and the Academic Library.”C&RL 73 (2): 9-20. http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/9.full.pdf
Wasserman, Todd. 2012. Mashable’s business editor. “Global sales of smartphones will top 1 billion units in 2014, according to one analyst’s estimate.” http://mashable.com/2012/04/12/smartphone-sales-to-hit-1-billion/
WPI has a Libguide for Research Appshttp://libguides.wpi.edu/content.php?pid=116812&sid=2530434