M-Libraries 3 : Transforming Libraries with Mobile Technology /: Transforming Libraries with Mobile Technology. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mohamed Ally, Gill Needham.
• Editors: Ally, Mohamed; Needham, Gill
• Contents: Foreword - Stephen Abram Introduction - Gill Needham 1. Education for all with mobile technology: the role of libraries - Mohamed Ally PART 1: DEVELOPING MOBILE SERVICES 2. Preparing for the mobile world: experimenting with changing technologies and applications for library services - Colin Bates and Rebecca Carruthers 3. Enhancing open distance learning library services with mobile technologies - Jenny Raubenheimer 4. Use of mobile phones in the delivery of consumer health information - Vahideh Zarea Gavgani 5. Deploying an e-reader loan service at an online university - Anna Zuñiga-Ruiz and Cristina López-Pérez 6. Mobile service providers and library services in a multi-campus library - Ela Volatabu Qica 7. Using mobile technology to deliver information in audio format: learning by listening - Margie Wallin, Kate Kelly and Annika McGinley 8. Sound selection: podcasts prove positive - Daniel McDonald and Roger Hawcroft PART 2: PEOPLE AND SKILLS 9. Staff preparedness to implement mobile technologies in libraries - Sarah-Jane Saravani and Gaby Haddow 10. Apps and attitudes: towards an understanding of the m-librarian’s professional make-up - Kate Davis and Helen Partridge 11. There’s a librarian in my pocket: mobile information literacy at UTS Library - Sophie McDonald 12. Exploring student engagement with mobile technologies - Julie Cartwright, Sally Cummings, Bernadette Royal, Michelle Turner and JoAnne Witt 13. It’s just not the same: mobile information literacy - Andrew Walsh and Peter Godwin 14. The students have iPods: an opportunity to use iPods as a teaching tool in the library - Iris Ambrose PART 3: FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY 15. Mobile services of the National Library of China - Wei Dawei, Xie Qiang and Niu Xianyun 16. India’s mobile technology infrastructure to support m-services for education and libraries - Seema Chandhok and Parveen Babbar 17. Use and user context of mobile computing: a rapid ethnographic study - Jim Hahn 18. Meeting the needs of library users on the mobile web - Hassan Sheikh and Keren Mills 19. Mobile dynamic display systems for library opening hours - Keiso Katsura 20. Device-independent and user-tailored delivery of mobile library service content - Damien Meere, Ivan Ganchev, Máirtín Ó Droma, Mícheál Ó hAodha and Stanimir Stojanov 21. Designing effective mobile web presence - Sam Moffatt Conclusion - Mohamed Ally.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Facet Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications; IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries; Community & outreach services; Mobile phone technology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781856049184; 1856049183
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.