Presentation to Library Faculty, Southern Connecticut State University, March 12, 2010

1. libraries & mobile tech lisacarluccithomas digital services librarian southern connecticut state university SCSU library faculty meeting - march 12, 2010

2. then & there, here & now libraries: information repositories knowledge centers (and more) librarians: trained in the art of information transfer skilled curators of rich collections (and more) this is no different in the mobile library lisa carlucci thomas 2

3. then & there, here & now so, what is different? first: web 1.0: created worldwide, interconnected, digital information environment (new rules) then: web 2.0: information became interpersonal, social, interactive (new attitudes) now: mobile technologies: swift, efficient, effective communications & information exchange (new expectations) lisa carlucci thomas 3

5. text message reference text a librarian: web mediated text message reference – launched 2009 yale science library: first iphonesms reference service – 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/textalibrarian/3772780201 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeydigits/2036755814/ lisa carlucci thomas 5

6. electronic collections www.slideshare.net/lisacarlucci mobile devices = increased access to collections www.flickr.com/photos/lisacarlucci lisa carlucci thomas 6

7. access services & catalogs all images except worldcat from: http://userslib.com/category/mobile/ worldcat image: http://www.worldcat.org/mobile/default.jsp lisa carlucci thomas 7

9. Interacting with visitors

10. Pointing to stuff that’s happening in the library (ie., lectures)

11. Regularly add photos and videos

12. Using Facebook’s Events feature to list events.-- david lee king, february 9, 2010 http://www.davidleeking.com/2010/02/09/humanizing-your-facebook-pages/ lisa carlucci thomas 8

15. mobile applications “Ever wonder what a wall-sized visualization of live downloads of the 20,000 most popular iPhone apps from the App Store would look like in near real-time?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xiv0l4eR4 www.slideshare.net/lisacarlucci how mobile changed my life…and will change yours too (shows examples of mobile content delivery & iphone apps) http://bit.ly/QLmobile lisa carlucci thomas 11

16. what’s next in 2010? new mobile devices QR codes geolocation augmented reality mobile payments new mobile web standards cloud computing & data storage proliferation of subject-specific mobile resources new competencies for librarians & students ... & all the new stuff we don’t even know about yet! lisa carlucci thomas 12