ala lita mcig presentation
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
JISC m-libs UK academic library perspective
Jo Alcock @joeyanne
ALA LITA MCIG webinar
JISC Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme
Five institutional projects and a community support project
UK higher education focus
November 2011 - August 2012
Institutional projectsThe Open University University of Bristol
London School of Economics and Political Science City University London
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
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/
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/
Mobile library community support project
Evidence Base at Birmingham City University Owen Stephens Consulting
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)
Community building
Facilitating communication within m-library community
Information sharing events
Online communication
Encouraging sharing of good practice
Useful resources
Please add resources using #mlibs
#mlibs
Further information
http://m-libraries.info
Bundle of related links
Support project blog
http://bit.ly/mlibsproject