[Web4lib] The Mobile Libraries Blog | Major Additions | Week Of 04-12-09 |

Fri Apr 17 15:55:38 EDT 2009

Colleagues/

I am pleased to inform you of Major New Additions to The Mobile Libraries Blog:

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Pew Internet: The Mobile Difference

Pew Internet & American Life Project / WASHINGTON, DC / Mar 25, 2009 / The Mobile Difference

Some 39% of Americans have positive and improving attitudes about their mobile communication devices, which in turn draws them further into engagement with digital resources - on both wireless and wireline platforms

"Mobile services complement existing broadband assets, and these Americans find it increasingly hard to be without their connectivity traveling with them as they go." 

These findings are the centerpiece of a new typology of technology users released by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The typology places information and communication technology (ICT) users into ten categories built around their assets (the gadgets they have), actions (how they use ICTs), and attitudes (how they feel about the role of ICTs in their lives).

Link(s) Available Through  

[ http://tinyurl.com/dmr7x8  ]

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Information On The Move : The First International m-Libraries Conference / 13th -14th November 2007 / The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

>>Select Presentations With Abstracts / Presentation Slides For Most<<

Opening Keynote / Joan K. Lippincott / Associate Executive Director / Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), USA 

Engaging Net Gen Students in Learning: Mobility And Libraries 

Mobile Learning, Mobile Library, Mobile Technology, Mobile Society / John Traxler/ University of Wolverhampton, UK

Building An Effective Mobile-Friendly Digital Library To Support Mobile Learners: A Case Study Of The Athabasca University m-Library Project / Rory McGreal, Mohamed Ally, Steve Schafer, Yang Cao, Tony Tin / Athabasca University, Canada

Enhancing Library Access Through The Use Of Mobile Technology: The Student Perspective And Practical Implementation / Lynne Callaghan, Ruth Charlton, Matthew Newcombe / University of Plymouth, UK

Mobile e-Learning For Community-Based Health Workers In Developing Countries / Adesina Iluyemi / University of Portsmouth, UK

Keynote / Dr Agnes Kukulska-Hulme / Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology / The Open University, UK 

Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Mobile Age

Public Libraries, Mobile Learning And The Creative Citizen / Geoff Butters, Margaret Markland and Rob 

Davies / Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Exploiting Mobile Communications For Library Service Development: Technical Possibilities And Cultural Implications / William Foster / University of Central England, UK 

Library As An Advocate of Mobile Learning: the Athabasca University Experience / Stella Lee, Tony Tin, Colin Elliottt / Athabasca University, Canada 

Integrating the Educational Support Architecture In An E-Services Paradigm: The M-Learning Approach / Ivan Ganchev, Máirtín O'Droma, Stanimir Stojanov , Mícheál Ó hAodha, Damien Meere TRC, University of 

Limerick, Ireland and eCL, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Links / Etc. Available Through 

[ http://tinyurl.com/dylqvh ]

III.

m-Libraries: Libraries On The Move To Provide Virtual Access / Edited By Gill Needham and Mohamed Ally / Facet Publishing / September 2008 / 352 pp. / Hardback / 978-1-85604-648-0 / £44.95

Select Proceedings Of The First International m-Libraries Conference

Table Of Contents Available At 

 [ http://tinyurl.com/c2tuy3 ]

BTW: I'd Appreciate Learning Of Any/All Self-Archived / Open Access Versions Of Any/All Of These Chapters

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The Second International m-Libraries Conference will be held June 21-24 2009 at the Vancouver Campus of the University of British Columbia

This conference aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via a growing plethora of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments. 

The conference is sponsored by the University of British Columbia in conjunction with Athabasca University, The Open University; and Thompson Rivers University.

Preconferences 

Skills on the Move -- A "Hands On" Workshop Creating Mobile Learning Content

Mobile Design: Interactive Multimedia To Support Learning And Teaching

Mobile Library Technical Development: Opportunities and Challenges

Researching m-Libraries: Strategies For Investigating And Evaluating Our Mobile Library Applications

Plenary Session 1 

Keynote Speaker, Lorcan Dempsey / Concentration, Connection, Diffusion: Mobilizing library services

Plenary Session 2 

Ken Banks / Where Books are Few: The Role of Mobile Phones In The Developing World

Carie Page / Anytime, Anywhere: Reaching the Always-On Generation Through Mobility

Paul Nelson / Partnerships for Community Health Improvement Through Mobile Devices (abstract)

Joan Lippincott/ Why m-Libraries? Making the Case For Innovation 

Concurrent Parallel Sessions 

Session 3 / Mobile Technologies 

Session 4 / New Mobile Services 

Session 5 / Mobile Technologies Supporting Development

Session 6 / Mobile Libraries for Learning 

Session 7 / Mobile Users 

Session 8 / Mobile Technologies

Session 9 / New Mobile Services

Session 10 / Mobile Technologies Supporting Development 

Session 11 / Mobile Libraries Learning

Session 12 / Mobile Services for Distance Learners 

Session 13 / Mobile Technologies

Session 14 / New Mobile Services 

Session 15 / Mobile Libraries for Learning 

Session 16 / Mobile Services for Distance Learners

Session 17 / Practitioner Papers 

Titles Of Specific Presentations And Links To Abstract Available Through 

 [ http://tinyurl.com/ce4x5a ]

Happy Friday !

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu    

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