Creating the Future of Mobile Library Services

with Joe Murphy & Chad Mairn

Handheld Librarian Online Conference III

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

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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 PCsand landline phones combined, so your potential audience is huge!

Uploaded to Flickr on November 8, 2007 by Travelin' Librarian

Uploaded to Flickr on November 29, 2006 by Michael Casey

“Fundamentally, 'mobile' refers to the user, not the

device or application.”

Barbara Ballard Designing the Mobile User Experience

Pay Attention To Other Industries

Calvin Klein using QR codes

http://www.mobilebehavior.com/

Personal iPhone stations at Japanese Burger Kings

http://www.mobilebehavior.com/

Space Builder - A mobile scanner app that allows users to create their own catalogs and custom views as they shop.

http://www.mobilebehavior.com/

Library of Congress ‘Passport to Knowledge’

SQFT

http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/sqft-wieden-kennedy-new-york-responds-to-psfk-future-of-retail-report.html

The Future of Mobile App Development?

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

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, …

mairn.chad@spcollege.edu

(727) 341.7181

+ 1 (727) 537.6405

chadmairn@gmail.com

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

Contact Information

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and now for something completely different

Joe Murphy

Yale Science Librariesjoseph.murphy@yale.edu

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