Presentation given at the Mobile Learning Symposium, May 1, 2009

1. FROM THE ULTIMATE MOBILE
DEVICE
TO ULTIMATELY MOBILE:
LIBRARIES AND MOBILE
SERVICES
Karen Hunt
Libraries Electronic Services and Technologies, UML
Mobile Learning Symposium, University of Manitoba, May 1 2009

2. Education ⪮ Libraries
How do mobile technologies impact education?
What can educators do to take advantage of the powerful
computing devices most students carry in their pockets?

4. TYPICAL RESPONSES TO THE
MOBILITY OF LEARNERS

5. Lending of books
Services for Distance Education
PC’s from home - proxied access to online resources
Telephone / Chat / Instant Messaging Help
Wireless access in Libraries / Lending laptops and notebooks

6. Why isn’t “Ask a Librarian”
more successful? Questions in March 2009
Number of Students
Market penetration is
30000
really poor
25000
Students (with a few 22500
exceptions) have to be on the
Libraries’ web site to access 15000
service
7500
0
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8. The other oldest profession
one quarter of librarians are 55 years or older
Source: The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries, 2005

9. The Future?
Enterprises in North America will be supporting more mobile
phones than desktop phones by 2011
http://www.gartner.com
The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the
Internet for most people in the world in 2020.
The Future of the Internet III , Pew Report, December 2008

10. EMERGING RESPONSES

13. podcasts
smartphone apps (catalogue search)
m-Libraries Conference (m-libraries2009.ubc.ca)
outside N.A. initiatives
skills / content / services

14. POTENTIAL RESPONSES

46. ADDRESSING THE GAP

47. at the least put the gear into the hands of the staff that are going
to create the content
make the content accessible
provide the services
make the contacts

48. 'Mobile Computing’, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical
Libraries,6:1,64 — 68
Lippincott, J. K. (2008). Mobile technologies, mobile users:
Implications for academic libraries. ARL: A Bimonthly Report on
Research Library Issues & Actions, (261), 1-4.
Instant Messaging via mobile set to challenge the status quo of
non-voice communication, 2008
http://www.tnsglobal.com/