Moving to Mobile:
Exploratory Services and Applications in Libraries
Lisa Hinchliffe
Head, Undergraduate Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jim F. Hahn
Orientation Services Librarian
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Michelle Leigh Jacobs
Emerging Technologies and Web Coordinator
University of California, Los Angeles
Cell phones and other mobile devices are ubiquitous and offer increasingly robust operating systems, user interfaces, and hardware sophistication. The potential of these devices for accessing the richness of library and information content, services, and applications provided is largely unrealized. This is particularly unfortunate in considering library outreach to undergraduate students. This session will review projects in development in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the College Library at the University of California at Los Angeles to explore possibilities for communication, content delivery, and instruction through mobile devices and the principles guiding these projects. Significant time in the session will be devoted to discussion of the opportunities, possibilities, challenges, and issues as libraries work to address this important issue - the move to mobile.
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