PowerPoint presentation slides during the 12th International Conference on Information (ICI12) on 12-13 Dec 2012 at Kuala Lumpur

1. Shahril Effendi Ibrahim
&
Ahmad Munawar Mohmad Anuar
OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

2. Introduction – mobile technology in society
What is m-libraries?
Why m-libraries?
Quick Response Code (QR-Code)

3. QR-Code

4. Usability testing
The future

5. Mobile technology in society
mobile banking
mobile shopping
mobile government
mobile learning – put school into everyone
pocket’s (Mohamed Ally, 2010)
mobile library – learners have a library in their
pockets to access information any time, anywhere

6. Libraries that :
Deliver information
and
Learning materials
in
Mobile devices
(Needham & Ally, 2008)

7. libraries can provide the following mobile
services through m-libraries (Vollmer, 2010):
Mobile online public access catalog (OPAC)
A webcam so users can check on
congestion in the library
Mobile library databases
SMS notifications, etc.

8. • Not just shrinking the page
Sierra, Tito (2009), Mobile Library Projects at North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries
CNI 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting

9. • Not just shrinking the page
Not just shrinking the page

10. Use only relevant & essential content

11. Information searching behaviour
Faster access & download
Mobile devices are small

12. to reach existing users (distance
learners, physically-challenged, etc.)
new users, esp. the youth
3 times as many mobile phones as
PCs
mobile makes library content
ubiquitous (Kroski, 2009)

13. Contact information
Most often Directions to the Library
present Library news
Opening hours
Catalog (OPAC)
Loan information & renewals
Links to mobile enabled
databases
Check computer availability
Booking discussion rooms
Most seldom Links to mobile-enabled search
present engine
Webcams to check congestion
Krishnan, Y. (2011). Libraries and the mobile revolution. Computers in Libraries, 31 (3), 6-9 & 40

14. •2-dimensional bar code
readable by smart phone camera

15. • Authentication entry

18. • To determine main area users like to access
via mobile:
contact no. - 86.5%
loan details - 79%
mobile OPAC - 68.6%
• OUM Library change layout of mobile version

19. Before Now

20. 92% of users increase their library portal
visits via PCs, laptops after using mobile
libraries

21. • Usage of mobile libraries,
according to Griffey, 2010 :
Percentage of total visitors
to library’s website
2-5 percentage – consider
success
OUM – 3.18 % (Jan 2012 –
current)

22. every 100 visits, 3 are via mobile devices
penetration rate of mobile banking – 3%
(Bank Negara Malaysia, 2009)

23. • Mobile more powerful and less expensive
• Location sensitive
Global Positioning System (GPS)
personalised libraries

24. • Ubiquitous technology
reference service and queries via mobile
devices
maybe mobile checkout – self checkout
using mobile device at bookshelves

25. Libraries must fully utilize mobile technology
to attract more patrons
M-libraries enhance u-learning process
M-libraries able to reach out to users through
their preferred method of communication,
ie. mobile devices

27. Library in Your Pocket: Strategies and Techniques for
Developing Successful Mobile Services by David
Woodbury and Jason Casden
Sierra, Tito (2009), Mobile Library Projects at North
Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries
CNI 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting
Krishnan, Y. (2011). Libraries and the mobile revolution.
Computers in Libraries, 31 (3), 6-9 & 40

28. Vollmer, T. (2010) There’s an App for That! Libraries and
Mobile Technology: An Introduction to Public Policy
Considerations. Washington, D.C.: American Library
Association
Griffey, J. (2010). Mobile technology and libraries. London:
Facet Publishing.