Register for the free LITA Mobile Computing IG 'Virtual' Meeting: 1/11 Noon EST

[Bohyun Kim]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

The link to meeting recording / chat log is now available at:
http://connect.ala.org/node/162629
The presentation slides are also found at the link above in the comments
section.


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Bohyun Kim <bohyun.kim.ois at gmail.com> wrote:

> *** Apologies for cross-posting ***
>
> Not going to Midwinter? You can still attend and participate in the
> LITA Mobile Computing IG Virtual Meeting.
> All you need to do is register for the web meeting below~!
>
> ++ LITA Mobile Computing IG Virtual Meeting ++
>
>   Meeting Title: LITA Mobile IG Meeting
>   Date & Time: 01/11/2012 at Noon EST.
>   Duration: 1.5 hour(s)
>
> Register here (Select 'LITA Mobile IG Meeting')
>   : https://ala.ilinc.com/public
>
> Join the meeting on 1/11
>   : https://ala.ilinc.com/join/zwktzsx
>
> Presentations
>
> HTML5 Apps, APIs, and the Mobile Platform
> - Jason Clark, Head of Digital Access and Web Services, Montana State
> University Libraries
>
> With features like geolocation, voice input, and offline data storage,
> HTML5 is changing the way we can develop for the mobile platform.
> We'll take a close look at a prototype mobile web app, BookMeUp, a
> book recommender tool built with some of the newest features of HTML5
> coupled with the Amazon Product Advertising API. The session will
> focus on some of the cutting edge features HTML5 has to offer, but
> will look to ways you might use HTML5 in your mobile development
> today.
>
> Handheld Tube Tours:  Increasing orientation engagement with viral
> videos and mobile devices
> - Sean Cordes
> Instruction Services Coordinator, Western Illinois University Libraries
>
> Library orientation tours are helpful, but for many students, if
> you’ve seen one service point, you’ve seen them all. This presentation
> describes the practice of incorporating the You Tube viral video
> format with handheld devices to energize and engage students during
> library orientation tours. Topics include best practices for creating
> viral library content, and triumphs and challenges of using handheld
> devices to support library orientation tours including device
> availability, connectivity, sequencing content, and pacing the
> handheld supplemented tour.
>
> JISC m-libs - a UK academic library perspective
> - Jo Alcock, Researcher, Evidence Base at Birmingham City University
>
> 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.
>
> Using paper prototyping to determine mobile platform requirements
> - David Brightbill, Manager of Research and Development, College
> Center for Library Automation, FL
>
> At CCLA, We’re currently doing some paper prototyping around potential
> mobile applications for our discovery tool .  We are looking at mobile
> apps that support the student research process and are in a very early
> stage of this but have identified a few potential topics that we hope
> to examine in student focus groups in the new year.
>
> WordPress Mobile Piug-ins
> - Sharon Whitfield, Emerging Technologies Librarian, The College of New
> Jersey
>
> WordPress is primarily known as an open source blogging platform, but
> it’s actually capable of much more.  One of the areas that Wordpress
> has been improving is with mobile website and app creation.   There
> are presently 126 plug-ins that support mobile website creation
> including tools that can post, manage, and edit your website from your
> mobile device.  Why guess which plug-ins will work for you?  Join us
> for this presentation and learn the best plug-ins to make your
> WordPress site, mobile friendly.
>
>
> ------
> Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS.
> LITA Mobile Computing IG Chair
> Digital Access Librarian | 305.348.1471
> Florida International University Medical Library
> http://medlib.fiu.edu | http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile)
>

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