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How could it REALLY change libraries?“@libraryfuture: The iPad Mini’s meaning & impact on libraries http://t.co/sh54FFJN”...
"For Libraries: For librarians’ use: the Mini may be better suited for mobile library staff: easier use with Square and mobile payments, more portable for roving reference, for checking out tablets to users." Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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Will be given at the LIBER 2012 Conference in Tartu, Estonia (No QR codes, more SMS and AR, please: MT @benshowers: 'Libraries to Go: Mobile Tech in Libraries' : http://t.co/j0sHL0ks #mlibs...)...
"Why Mobile Matters: - There are 5.3 billion global mobile subscribers (thats 77 percent of the world’s population) - International Telecommunications Union - 1 billion of the world’s 4+ billion mobile phones are now smartphones. - Microsoft Tag 83% of American adults own a cell phone.-Pew Internet & American Life Project - 87% of US smartphone owners access the internet or email on their handheld. -Pew Internet & American Life Project" Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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R David Lankes: A librarian plays devil's advocate for those who argue libraries are obsolete (but there is a happy ending).
"There are few of us who can know the exact moment their career ended. However when a professor of library science argues libraries are obsolete against a Harvard law school professor and the head of the lead funding agency in the field I think that moment has arrived. This was where I found myself April 18th when I took part in an Oxford-style debate as part of Harvard Library Strategic Conversations. The idea was to mix humor with serious debate on the proposition that “Libraries are Obsolete.” I was asked to argue for the proposition.Now this is a rather odd position to be in since I have spent my career arguing exactly the opposite, but in the spirit of playing devil’s advocate, and the fact that I have tenure, I jumped in. After all, if we don’t honestly debate the point, how can we truly be sure we are not headed towards obsolescence [more on my rational see this post]." http://quartz.syr.edu/blog/?p=1557
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There's a text version and 2 videos totaling 24 minutes below. There’s a phrase that I use every now and then; “It’s like dancing on quick sand” and never was it more appropriate than right now in respect of the eBook arena.
"Let’s look at the latest news. A new low cost eBook reader has been unveiled by txtr, a German eBook retail platform...
Oyster, which is a new startup has raised $3 million in order to become the ‘Spotify of books’....
HarperCollins is launching a new global publishing system which will provide them with an infrastructure that allows them to maximise it’s catalogue of books, eBooks and apps...
The final news item that’s caught my eye, and I assume has also caught yours is that Amazon is going to launch their lending service in the UK by the end of the month..."
[...] "We are at an absolutely pivotal point within both our profession, and within the library service in the UK. I recently talked to an ex-librarian who has since left the profession, and she said ‘I’m glad I got out, we’re finished’. That is so patently not the case it’s painful. This is a superb time to be a professional, or to have a love of libraries, of reading, books and knowledge. This is because we are going to be able to shape the development of all of those things into the future. What we do now is going to set a pattern for the next 50 or 100 years. We just need to believe in the power that the information professionals have, and the key role that libraries play in society. But – and this is a big but, we can only do it if we all work together, because it’s only by holding out our hands to one another in trust that we can help drag ourselves out of the quicksand, rather than push each other under faster." Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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Mlibs event - Mobile devices in teaching and research: how do libraries support this? (RT @evidencebase: New #mlibs blog post: Mobile devices in teaching and research: how do libraries support this?
"Discussions focussed on challenges to implementing mobile technologies. These included: - cost of vendor provided services including costs for ongoing upgrades
- There was a general consensus that institutions needed to embrace mobile technology or risk the services that libraries might provide to support teaching and research not being fully exploited as users access other services through mobile devices Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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Rebecca Jones: "Mobile Apps: Implications for Libraries" http://t.co/ADV4dEEu SEE ALSO "Developing mobile apps the easy way" http://t.co/2WjfvXTY..."
"Jeff Wisniewski of University of Pittsburg updated the crowd at NYPL’s “Engaging Communitities, Promoting Learning” conference on the current state of mobile, and encouraged them to consider the implications for libraries. [...] Here’s his main points: [...] Apps Libraries Need to Pay Attention to & Leap Frog From: - TeenBookFinder - Buckeye Stroll - Denver Public Library’s Creating Communities - Yelp - ScanJose.org - ShelvAR - Google Maps 6.0 - ideaflight.com - Popplet.com - Georgia State University Library uses ipads for “guerilla-style" assessment - libraries can be publishers & support authors in creating ebooks with apps like iBooks and Kindle Direct Publishing - mobile is also allowing libraries to liberate space - push-location triggering alerting > DOKLAB"
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