Libraries have been concerned with serving their burgeoning virtual communities. However, in many ways, the advent of the mobile web turns many of the virtual communities outward to the physical world once again. This presentation discusses how libraries serve virtual and burgeoning mobile communities.
Last presented to the Pendleton Public Library advisory board on January 28, 2012
Driving Behavioral Change for Information Management through Data-Driven Gree...
A return to the physical: How libraries serve virtual and mobile communities
1. A return to the physical
How libraries serve virtual and mobile communities
Presented by:
Buzzy Nielsen
Library Director
This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution
January 28, 2012 United States license. http://www.creativecommons.org
12. 83% of adults own cell phones
Younger generations
= Higher use
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, Americans and their cell phones, August 15, 2011
13. 44% access the Web on their phones
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, Americans and their cell phones, August 15, 2011
14. 25% use only mobile phones
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, August 9-September 13, 2010 Tracking Survey
15. 51% of the younger are mobile-only
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, August 9-September 13, 2010 Tracking Survey
16. Dystopic cage fighting
VS
Contender: George Orwell Contender: Aldous Huxley
Secret weapon: 1984 Secret weapon: Brave New World
Greatest fear: Greatest fear:
Information deprivation Sensory overload
17. A Brave New World
Cover art from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, first edition published by Chatto and Windus, 1932
40. Thank you
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