Mobile Technologies in Libraries

Announcing Library Anywhere! Check it out on our ALA handout (available here). * A mobile catalog for any library, up and running in minutes. * Mobile web and apps for iPhone, Blackberry and Android. * Cheaper than you'd guess. * Search, place holds, and more. * Showcase hours, branches, and events. * No installation process. * Works with 90% of current OPACs. * Comes with an "accessible version" that provides a fully Section 508-compliant version of your existing catalog.

- North American mobile web share up 110% in 2009 (Dec '09 vs. Dec '08) - Global mobile web consumption share up 148% in 2009 - Apple continues to dominate, though market share has declined as increased competition emerges

top tech trends from ALA midwinter--the pdf

"... panel of experts analyzed and discussed what they learned and what trends stood out at the conference ..."

Mighty Meeting lets you carry your Power Point presentations on your Smartphone so you can present them anywhere. Covered by Techcrunch here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/15/mightymeeting-mobile-presentation/

Nice use of a libguide to promote library Kindle project.

Brief analysis of 40 library mobile sites.

This app will locate a public library near you, and let you use the access level they have to Gale databases. Thinking...if you are close, you could walk in, but we will give you online access. Amazing access to Houston Public Library Gale databases. I like this model of access using geolocating!

Now uses WorldCat API to find books in local libraries

Textnovel is a social network for authors and readers of serial fiction and the first English language cell phone novel website, allowing members to write and read fiction with their cellphones or computers, using text messaging, email and online tools.

MIT libraries

"Now you can snap a picture of a book's barcode, and within moments find out whether your local library has that book in stock, and whether it's currently checked out or sitting on the shelf."

joe murphy on mobile tech in libraries

"Cell phone and wireless laptop internet use have each grown more prevalent over the last year. Nearly half of all adults (47%) go online with a laptop using a Wi-Fi connection or mobile broadband card (up from the 39% who did so as of April 2009) while 40% of adults use the internet, email or instant messaging on a mobile phone (up from the 32% of Americans who did this in 2009). This means that 59% of adults now access the internet wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone-that is, they answered "yes" to at least one of these wireless access pathways. That adds up to an increase from the 51% who used a laptop or cell phone wirelessly in April 2009."

Two recent surveys: one of librarians, and one of publishers.