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Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services: A Handbook

Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services: A Handbook


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This is an essential practical guide for all information professionals who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services. Packed with easy to implement ideas, practical examples and international case studies, this provides you with the ultimate toolkit, exploring ideas as simple as renewals and reminders to the more complex such as access to e-books and virtual worlds. Jargon-free coverage of the background and context to mobile delivery will enable you to fully understand the challenges and embrace the opportunities, getting to grips with critical issues such as what sort of services users really want. Key topics covered include: ·context including market penetration, range and functionality of devices ·texting ·apps vs. mobile websites ·mobile information literacy vs. other information literacies ·mobiles in teaching ·linking the physical and virtual worlds via mobile devices ·E-books for mobiles ·the future of mobile delivery. This will be an invaluable practical guide for all information professionals and museum staff who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services. Library and information students and academics will find it a useful introduction to the topic.

About the Author :
Andrew Walsh is an academic librarian at Huddersfield University who has written, researched and presented widely on the application of mobile technologies within the library environment, information literacy, the use of active learning and using web 2.0 technologies. He won the UC&R Innovation Award in 2009.

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In this handbook, Walsh (librarian, Univ. of Huddersfield, UK) provides a practical exploration of how mobile technologies can aid library service. After presenting an overview of the subject, he details a study examining the mobile services students want in an academic library context, effectively illustrating how the findings also apply to nonacademic contexts. He explores “fixed” information literacy (users search for and access resources in a “fixed” context with a suite of established tools) and “mobile” information literacy (users do not have a full suite of tools and are often doing more limited tasks using more limited resources). Examining how search behavior differs across devices helps determine the types of mobile options that might be most valuable for libraries. Walsh gives specific examples of how mobile technologies are being used, ranging from roving librarianship and applications in teaching to mobile use of ebooks, and discusses how such technologies can help with librarians’ productivity and professional development. Each chapter includes case studies of real-world applications in various library contexts, including not just the UK, but also Canada, the States, and Australia. VERDICT Well written, clear, engaging, and applicable to many different types of libraries, this highly recommended work is a must-have for librarians wondering, “Is there an app for that?” Walsh is an academic librarian at Huddersfield University who has written and presented widely on the application of mobile technologies within the library environment. This slim volume provides a primer in a wide range of mobile technologies and devices as well as chapters outlining the critical differences between traditional information literacies versus mobile information literacy and how library workers can make the most of mobile devices and technologies to increase productivity and flexibility in supporting users. Meticulously researched, each chapter is filled with useful case studies, along with extensive references and suggestions for further reading. Although the focus is primarily the application of mobile technologies in an academic library environment, the ideas outlined by the author are easily transferable to any library. As Walsh cautions in the final chapter, the most important consideration when introducing mobile technologies as a method of service delivery in the library is: What do your users want, and what can your staff deliver? The worst thing library professionals can do is rush headlong into a project that cannot be sustained and provides services of little use to patrons. Careful readers of this guide should easily be able to avoid that pitfall.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780810887572
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 277 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0810887576
  • Publisher Date: 08 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Handbook
  • Width: 156 mm


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