1 Emerging Mobile Technologies in Libraries Gabriel R. Rios Deputy Director Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Emerging Mobile Technologies Objectives Identify and discuss current and future mobile technologies • PDAs • Blackberries • iPods • Cell phones • TabletPCs • Other Devices Apply case studies and recommendations for supporting mobile devices
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Emerging MobileTechnologies in Libraries
Gabriel R. RiosDeputy Director
Lister Hill Library of the Health SciencesUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
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Objectives
Identify and discuss current and future mobiletechnologies• PDAs• Blackberries• iPods• Cell phones• TabletPCs• Other Devices
Apply case studies and recommendations forsupporting mobile devices
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Why do we care?
Convergence ofinformationprofessionals
“Informationappliances”
Meet “them” wherethey are at
Transparent toaster from Inventables.com
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Mobile Devices Used in Libraries
PDAs/Smart Phones
Cell Phones
iPods/MP3 players
Tablets
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PDAs and Smartphones
Personal Digital Assistant
Palm
Handhelds
Organizers
Smart Phones
Blackberry?
Pocket-size computers
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Operating Systems
Palm OS• More users
• More software/application development
• Better battery life
Windows Mobile (PocketPC)• HP, Dell, and others
• Fewer users
• Handwriting recognition
• Biometric integration
Symbian• Smartphones
RIM• Blackberry
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Software Availability
Palm software• More (free) applications
Windows Mobile software• Most common applications are available• Can run Palm OS applications with additional software
E-mail goes to server in Australia and isconverted back to text message.
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Questions asked
Based on a paper from librarians at Curtin University in Australiahttp://conferences.alia.org.au/online2005/papers/a12.pdf
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Questions
My name is Meghan will u b my friend?
Hey do u have books?
Where r the magazines?
Where can I do vehicle registration?
What is the recipe for cream pie?
Who wrote the great gatsby?
How do I find empirical articles online?
iPods
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iPod
MP3 player from Apple• iPod works with PCs too• Many other MP3 players
Plays digital audio and videoWhat else can you do with your iPod besides listento music?• Notes• Contacts• Calendar• To Do list• Games• RSS feeds - iPod Agent, iFeed
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Podcasting
Method of distributing multimedia filesover the Internet• Podcast = audio program• RSS & Atom = main formats of distribution
Playback on mobile devices andpersonal computers.Asynchronous - TiVoSubscribe to podcasts
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Podcasting Examples
Berkeley
Creighton University School of Medicine
UVa Historical Collections
Arizona Health Sciences Library
Publishers - Nature
TabletPCs
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TabletPC use in Libraries
Full Windows XP Tablet Edition OS
Slate or convertible
Pen or pen/keyboard
Eccles Library• 26 TPCs for Check out
• 1 hour introductory course
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Have UMPC Will Travel
Microsoft Origami(Ultra Mobile PCs)• 7” diagonal screen
• Windows XP Tablet OS
• Finger and stylus input
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The Next Small Thing…
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Something Real
Nokia 770• Linux
• Basic e-mail, Web, PDF
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Nokia 770 Screenshot
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Summary
Mobile technology is here to stay
Mobile technology is another vehicle forinformation
Mobile technology is another way tomeet our users where they are at
Our content should be portable or havethe ability to be ported