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Mobile Technologies: Why Library Staff Should Be Interested
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath, UK
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About Me
Brian Kelly:• 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
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Mobile Technologies
Personalexperiences
Consumingcontent
Creatingcontent
Enhancing productivity
Developing professional relationships Doing new
things
Learning from others
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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
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Mobile Devices
What are the implications of mobile devices?
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Mobile Devices
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Consumer devices, networks & digital memory
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A Day in the LifeHow 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
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My blogs: how I keep up-to-date with developments
The Essentials
UKOLN blogs: keeping informed of my colleagues activities, news, …
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My Twitter stream: brief summaries from my community and my search terms
Emerging New PatternsMy 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
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These tweets
This content
Emerging New PatternsMy 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
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I have since:• Created various Twitter lists (e.g. ‘JISC’, Ariadne, ..)• Used Smartr for delivery of focussed content as well
as serendipitous content
Another TripTripit 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)
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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
Podcasts
If you don’t like (or can’t) read whilst travelling podcasts can allow you to listen to talks.
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Listen to JISC Podcast on desktop PC …
Or subscribe to feed so it automatically appears on mobile device
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 InformationIn 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 InformationVideo streaming apps available on mobile devices
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Qik video taken on iPod Touch at FOTE10 conference(too far away; sound distorted)
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 BenefitsUsing 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
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?
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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