Impact of Mobile in the Library Environment

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Jan 04

In reviewing news clips from the month of December, I came across this ResourceShelf entry, directing me to several presentations from academic librarians on mobile technology.

In particular, I want to draw attention to the keynote presentation by Rachel Vacek (University of Houston Libraries), an excellent overview of the ways in which university libraries are integrating mobile technology to better serve their patrons, complete with useful statistics. It's worth viewing. In one of those serendipitous occurences, the same day that those presentations were made available, ReadWriteWeb linked to an outstanding research report from Morgan Stanley, which indicates that the forthcoming era of mobile computing is likely to create an even greater wave of change to information behaviors than did desktop computing.