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Joan K. Lippincott is from the Coalition for Networked Information

• Shift from desktop to laptop is almost complete for college students
• 80.5% college students own a laptop (don’t always bring it to class, though)
• 66% college students oen an internet-capable cell phone
• 71% of teens owned a cell phone in 2008
• Discussion of cell phone plan pricing and apps stores changing how people use cell phones
• Kindle sales of a recent bestseller by Dan Brown topped print sales at Amazon for a short period of time (still notable)
• Twitter is being used by more people of all ages; highest update in age group 45-54
• Mainstream press is producing mobile-compatible versions of content
• What are libraries doing to meet mobile challenge? Content configured for devices? Services for mobile users? Promotion of content and services so people know they’re available?
• Moving from communication to information devices: using cell phones for a lot more (alarm clock, watch, music collection, email machine, etc)
• Talked a bit about iTunes U
• Nielsen reports a 52% increase in mobile subscribers watching a video on a mobile phone
• Kids “consider their mobile phone to be their best friend”
• Survey of US and UK kids: if you had to give up all but one device, which would you keep? Choose phone.
• Will do more and create content with devices (though skills vary widely among students)
• 67% students in high school maintain a website
• 27% of K-12 said they regularly create slideshows, videos, or webpages for schoolwork
• K-12 express frustration when they can’t use their own devices for course work
• Harvard Medical School in 2007: 52% owned PDA, mostly for reference info
• More jobs will be in these environments when they graduate, how are we preparing them for this?
• Reminded us about Studying Students and Informing Innovation.
• What do you think when you hear the words “mobile” and “library”
• Often hours, catalogs, etc via mobile phone or maybe SMS text message reference
• But there can be more:
• bringing together general library information
• patron records
• reference transactions
• information literacy podcasts and videos
• access to services–booking group rooms
• access to catalogs, indexes, abstracts
• Access to digital content configured for mobile devices (library owned or licensed, freely available on the web)
• Geo-spatially linked information
• Loan of devices
• New Technologies–what’s next? Social networking and QR Codes for mobile devices
• Need cohesive strategies for mobile library information/content/services
• Many libraries are prototyping services or trying things in specific departments
• Pointed out U.Va Library Mobile site
• Is your mobile information easy to find from library homepage?
• Scholarly resources are emerging: arXiv is available for the iPhone
• Libraries are using institutional content in creative ways: Digital images from Duke special collections and NCSU location aware campus tour uses images from special collections
• There are a number of mobile-accessible resources that can fit into your plan:
  • WorldCat
  • Google Books Search
  • Refworks Mobile
  • Blackboard
  • Audiobooks
    
  • IEEE Explore database
  • J. American Chemical Society
  • iTunes U
  • Podcasts from research and educational institutions
• QR Codes can link locations, books, etc to web pages with additional information, links to social networking, or phone numbers.
• Some libraries also serve as main campus resource for device information: comparison of mobile devices, workshops, help desk support
• Lockers with built in outlets so students could leave devices charging up
• Discussion of importance of marketing and placements of links. Cross marketing using YouTube, etc.
• Pilot services in the context of an overall plan
• Partners within the library: IT or Systems, Reference, departmental liaisons, special collections, access services, administrators (planning process, acquiring or reallocating resources, seat at institutional table)
• At Indiana U. business grad students are offered discounts on Blackberries
• At U. Missouri, journalism students are required to buy an iPhone or an iPod Touch
• Partnership: Academic/Library/IT at Quinnipiac University physical assistant graduate program. 3 key applications including the Merck Manual
• Is the overall institution developing a mobile plan?
• ECAR study on core campus activities that might make use of mobile tech, but left out libraries. However, many campuses do include libraries: MIT, U. San Diego, U Illinois UC, and others
• Now is the time: study local environment and users, pilot projects, participate in institutional planning, plan promotion, disseminate information about successes and problems, fully participate in mobile revolution
• Q&A
• Bandwidth necessary for mobile video users
• Different mobile platforms
• Adoption of twitter, podcasts, etc
• What different people are doing here at the Forum
• Carts with large monitor that people can push around to create collaboration spaces

Update: Thanks for the link correction, Andy!

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