The JISC Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme is a series of projects in UK supporting initiatives that utilise mobile computing in academic libraries. The presentation will give a brief overview of the institutional projects, and discuss the broader community support project which aims to help support and engage the emerging m-library community by reviewing and synthesising existing research and evidence-based guidance.

1. JISC m-libs
UK academic library perspective
Jo Alcock
@joeyanne
ALA LITA MCIG webinar

2. JISC Mobile Infrastructure
for Libraries programme
Five institutional projects and a
community support project
UK higher education focus
November 2011 - August 2012

3. Institutional projects
The Open University
University of Bristol
London School of Economics and Political Science
City University London

4. Macon
Mobilising Academic Content
Online
• Mobile discovery interface (using the
EBSCO API)
• Mobile authentication bookmarklet tool
• Good practice toolkit for publishers and
libraries
• Evaluation
Project blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/
macon
Twitter hashtag: #OUMACON #mlibs

5. M-Biblio Project – University of Bristol
• Develop a mobile phone application that can
record and organise references to books,
journals and other resources
• Provide user-derived usage statistics of books
and journals to the library
• Blog: http://mbiblio.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/

6. PhoneBooth
PhoneBooth will repurpose the Charles Booth Maps, Descriptive of
London Poverty and selected police notebooks (which record eye-witness
descriptions of London street-by-street) for delivery to mobile devices
http://jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com/
• enhance the current online delivery
• deliver content to the location to which it refers
• pilot in a teaching course
• mobilisation will be a model for further
development of digital library services

7. Mobile library
community support project
Evidence Base at Birmingham City University
Owen Stephens Consulting

8. Evidence gathering
Collecting existing m-library case studies
Gathering information on m-library
initiatives
Collecting information from the programme
Sharing information and case studies with
interested parties (within and outside
programme)

9. Community
building
Facilitating communication within
m-library community
Information sharing events
Online communication
Encouraging sharing of good
practice

10. Useful resources
#mlibs
Please add resources using #mlibs

11. Further information
Support project blog
http://m-libraries.info
Bundle of related links
http://bit.ly/mlibsproject

12. Contact
Jo Alcock
@joeyanne
jo.alcock@bcu.ac.uk
http://m-libraries.info