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JISC m-libs UK academic library perspective Jo Alcock @joeyanne ALA LITA MCIG webinar

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The JISC Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme is a series of projects in UK supporting initiatives that utilise mobile computing in academic libraries. The presentation will give a brief overview of the institutional projects, and discuss the broader community support project which aims to help support and engage the emerging m-library community by reviewing and synthesising existing research and evidence-based guidance.

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JISC m-libs UK academic library perspective

Jo Alcock @joeyanne

ALA LITA MCIG webinar

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JISC Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme

Five institutional projects and a community support project

UK higher education focus

November 2011 - August 2012

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Institutional projectsThe Open University University of Bristol

London School of Economics and Political Science City University London

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MaconMobilising Academic Content Online• Mobile discovery interface (using the

EBSCO API) • Mobile authentication bookmarklet tool • Good practice toolkit for publishers and

libraries • Evaluation

Project blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/macon Twitter hashtag: #OUMACON #mlibs

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M-Biblio Project – University of Bristol

• Develop a mobile phone application that can record and organise references to books, journals and other resources

• Provide user-derived usage statistics of books and journals to the library

• Blog: http://mbiblio.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/

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PhoneBoothPhoneBooth will repurpose the Charles Booth Maps, Descriptive of London Poverty and selected police notebooks (which record eye-witness descriptions of London street-by-street) for delivery to mobile devices

• enhance the current online delivery • deliver content to the location to which it refers • pilot in a teaching course • mobilisation will be a model for further

development of digital library services

http://jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com/

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Mobile library community support project

Evidence Base at Birmingham City University Owen Stephens Consulting

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Evidence gathering

Collecting existing m-library case studies

Gathering information on m-library initiatives

Collecting information from the programme

Sharing information and case studies with interested parties (within and outside programme)

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Community building

Facilitating communication within m-library community

Information sharing events

Online communication

Encouraging sharing of good practice

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Useful resources

Please add resources using #mlibs

#mlibs

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Further information

http://m-libraries.info

Bundle of related links

Support project blog

http://bit.ly/mlibsproject

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Contact

Jo Alcock

@joeyanne

[email protected]

http://m-libraries.info