This audience-driven session will use input from you to highlight current trends, best practices, and emerging futures of mobile services. Together we will push the boundaries and pull the horizons to invent the future of mobile libraries and establish best practices for continuing success. Joe Murphy and Chad Mairn will lend their expertise to answer questions of what’s next in order to provide a clearer path to accomplishing the goal of putting your library conveniently in your user’s pocket.
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Creating the Future of Mobile Library Services
1. Creating the Future of Mobile Library Services with Joe Murphy & Chad Mairn Handheld Librarian Online Conference III
2. Track Overview What’s Happening With Mobile in Libraries with Chris Tonjes, today @ 1:00 p.m. CDT Developing & Designing for Mobile with Jeff Wisniewski, today @ 2:00 p.m. CDT Mobile Tips & Practices with Jason A. Clark, Laurie Bridges, and Kim Griggs,today @ 4:30 p.m. CDT
5. Why libraries should have a mobile presence. “Mobile phones create new kinds of bounded places that merge the infrastructures of geography and technology, as well as techno-social practices thatmerge technical standards and social norms." (Moll, 2007, p.12) The mobile web is connecting people to information while they are on the go, so this is a great space for libraries! Plus mobile phones have surpassed PCs and landline phones combined, so your potential audience is huge!
17. The Future of Mobile App Development? http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
18. Future considerations: library advocacy, librarian as app, fingerprint-proof touch screens, face recognition, voice capabilities (translation, VoIP, Foursquare Voice, in-car systems, Vivox etc.), push technologies, augmented reality and reference, mobile browsers, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, humanity, culture, dialogue, …
19. Contact Information mairn.chad@spcollege.edu (727) 341.7181 + 1 (727) 537.6405 chadmairn@gmail.com @cmairn With your phone take a quick photo of this code and you’ll be directed to my mobile contact page. For the software, visit http://www.beetagg.com