With more of your library users using mobile devices to access information they will assume that your library can be available from anywhere, at any time, and on most any device. Don’t disappoint them! Join Chad Mairn as he highlights 5 ways to provide stellar mobile library services today! A real-time collaborative notebook is available at http://shog.us/mobile This presentation was for one of ABC-CLIO's 'Meet the Author' session at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia on January 26, 2014.

1. 5 Ways to
Offer
Mobile
Services
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2. Slides are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn
A real-time collaborative notebook is available at http://shog.us/mobile
@cmairn

4. Mobile Revolution
Mobile Access to Content
Mobile Tech Trends in
Libraries
Mobile Reference
Mobile Library Users
Mobile Professional
Development and New
Opportunities

5. Mobile Revolution

6. By February 2013, the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) estimated that there were 6.8 billion mobile
subscriptions worldwide!
That is equivalent to 96% of the world population (7.1
billion according to the ITU).
Is a huge increase from 6 billion mobile subscribers in
2011 and 5.4 billion in 2010.
Source: http://goo.gl/dLAu3Z

7. Mobile Tech Trends in Libraries

8. Scanning …
• Text Message Reference
• QR Codes
• Mobile Websites & OPACs
• Library Vendor Apps
• E-books
• Mobile Marketing & Assessment
• Augmented Reality
• Near Field Communication (NFC)
• Wearable Computing
• Write a “State of Mobile” report

9. The Boundless Library
Download the app: http://goo.gl/dBfGMb

10. Mobile Library Users

11. Scanning …
• Mobile Learning
• Game-based Learning
• Orientations and Tours
• QR Code Scavenger Hunts
• Point-of-need Instruction
• Mobile Response Systems
• QR Coding Books etc.
• Physical Buildings & Wireless Access
Want examples? Visit the real-time collaborative notebook at http://shog.us/mobile

12. Mobile Access to Content

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Mobile Web Design
Responsive Web Design
Native Apps vs. Web Apps?
Frameworks (jQuery Mobile, iUI)
HTML5’s Offline Storage
Mobile OPACs
Barcode Scanner
E-books
Vendor Created Mobile Apps
Archives & Inventory

14. Mobile Reference

15. Scanning …
• SMS-based Reference
• Consider Indoor Google Mapping!
• Data Collection
• Mobile-to-Mobile Messaging
• Roving Reference & Outreach

16. Mobile Professional
Development and New
Opportunities

17. Scanning …
• Mobile Websites
• E-book Download Stations
• LIBRARYH3LP
• Vendor Supplied Apps
• Time to Play
• Professional Reading
• Consider using Calibre to create a personal e-book
• Interpersonal Networking
• Research & Scholarship
• Virtual Workshops/Courses
• Conferences

18. How do librarians deal with
this mobile revolution and econtent explosion?

19. At
least
5 Ways to
Offer
Mobile
Services
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21. Contact Information
Let’s
Hangout!
gplus.to/chadmairn