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Mobile Technologies:
Why Library Staff Should Be Interested
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath, UK
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Introduction
About Me
Brian Kelly:
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UK Web Focus: national advisory post to UK HEIs
Long-standing Web evangelist
Based at UKOLN at the University of Bath
Prolific blogger (890 posts since Nov 2006)
User of various devices to support professional
(and social) activities
• Prolific speaker (~365 talks from 1996-2010)
UKOLN:
• A national centre of expertise in digital information
management
• A JISC Innovation Support Centre
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About This Session
Consuming
content
Creating
content
Personal
experiences
Mobile
Technologies
Learning
from others
Enhancing
productivity
Developing
professional
relationships
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Doing new
things
Introduction
About This Talk
Mobile devices:
• What’s happening today?
• What opportunities are there?
• What are you doing?
• What concerns do you have?
• What happens next?
• Questions and discussions
But first:
• Revisiting the past
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Personal experiences
Show and tell
General discussion
Challenges
Slide from 2004
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images
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Mobile Devices
What are the implications of mobile devices?
Challenges
Slide from 2004
Mobile Devices
What are the implications of mobile devices?
X
images
What do these devices have in common? :-)
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Challenges
Slide from 2004
Mobile Devices
What are the implications of mobile devices?
X
images
What do these devices have in common? :-)
Consumer devices, networks & digital memory
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A Day in the Life
How I use my iPod Touch? Before breakfast I
(and others):
• Download email
• Download new RSS feeds
• Download Twitter updates
• Download Twitter links using Smartr
• Download Facebook updates
• …
I am prepared for my journey to work (or for a
train journey)
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The Essentials
My email: prepared to respond
when I arrive at work
My blogs: how I keep up-todate with developments
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The Essentials
UKOLN blogs: keeping
informed of my colleagues
activities, news, …
My Twitter stream: brief summaries
from my community and my search
terms
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Emerging New Patterns
My Smartr feed: Links posted by my Twitter followers
and Twitter lists
Note:
• Learnt about service at 07.00 via Facebook from
anthropology researcher in Taiwan
• Installed software
• Used on bus
• Published blog post at 09.03
These tweets
This content
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Emerging New Patterns
My Smartr feed: Links posted by my
Twitter followers and Twitter lists
Readitlater (or Instapaper)
provides:
• Offline mobile reading
• Desktop reading my publishing
to The Cloud
I have since:
• Created various Twitter lists (e.g. ‘JISC’, Ariadne, ..)
• Used Smartr for delivery of focussed content as well
as serendipitous content
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Another Trip
Tripit is great for managing travel
info (trains times, hotel bookings,
maps, …) – and even better on a
mobile device
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Note entry normally created by
forwarding email confirmation from travel
service to [email protected]
Another Conference
Amplified events are now fairly
commonplace in many IT circles
Participants exploit mobile devices
and WiFi networks to:
• Discuss talks, seek clarification
and exchange ideas
• Engage with remote audiences
(e.g. colleagues at work)
Understanding how such event amplification technologies
work (e.g. Twitter, conventions, constraints) can help staff
development (and support greening strategies) by enhancing
learning without the need to travel
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Podcasts
If you don’t like (or can’t) read whilst travelling
podcasts can allow you to listen to talks.
Listen to JISC Podcast on
desktop PC …
Or subscribe to feed so it automatically
appears on mobile device
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Reflections: Consuming Information
On the Orange bus:
• A time for reading
• How did I manage to consume
new information before I had a
mobile device and was productive on the bus?
At conferences:
• “I’ve heard this talk before”
• “This talk isn’t relevant to me”
• I can now be productive (and benefit the tax-payer)
by working when previously I day-dreamed!
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Daily Activities
Get Things Done: how a
mobile device enables you to
remember what needs to be
done in context
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Publishing Information
In PowerPoint
2010 can
stream slides.
Author needs a
Windows Live
ID and users
can view
directly
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Possible benefits:
• Viewing live presentation as remote audience
• Viewing live presentation as local audience with restricted view:
“can you read the slides at the back?”
Publishing Information
Video streaming apps available on mobile devices
Qik video taken on iPod Touch
at FOTE10 conference
(too far away; sound distorted)
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Bambuser video taken (of
myself!) on iPod Touch
(Device on lectern; video jerky
but sound OKish)
New Daily Activities
Since 1 Jan 2011 I have taken
and uploaded a photo nearly
every day:
• Getting into a regular habit
• Helps me to look for new
things
• Mostly taken with my iPod
Touch
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Evidence of Benefits
Using a mobile device and developing professional /
personal networks can bring benefits:
Social Benefits
• What pub to go to? A trip to Coventry
• What to do: status update on Facebook while in
Malaysia
Professional Benefits
• A tweet leads to an award-winning paper!
In Case of Emergency - Tweet
• Help! Reflections on trip to Thailand in 2008
• Help! Reflections on Paul Boag’s experiences:
“The Power and Problems of Twitter”
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An example of
the importance of
new media
literacy
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Conclusions
“Libraries are about books”
• True
But libraries are also about:
• Supporting institutional
teaching & learning and
research activities
• Helping users address
their information needs
• Users
• Information literacy and new media literacy
Mobile devices are surely now a part of this
environment
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Questions
Any questions or comments?
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Your Turn
• What mobile devices do you use?
• What advantage do they provide?
• What suggestions would you make to your
colleagues?
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