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Comment on "The Librarians" – on ABC television by liza dezfouli

liza dezfouli — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:47:58 +0000

Any idea when the second series of The Librarians will be screened?

Comment on Creative Commons case studies by Will Donovan

Will Donovan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:58:20 +0000

I am interested in a case study regarding Harvard Business School’s WPMU deployment – I am a consultant with a Lebanese University that is interested in offering a similar blogging platform for its constituents.

Please let me know if a case study is found – http://williamcurtisdonovan.com/contact/

Comment on UTS Library Video Competition by Karena

Karena — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:46:12 +0000

Library Caveman! Loved it!

Comment on Monday Muse – The vulgar modernisation of libraries by Ana

Ana — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:00:04 +0000

There’s no reason why books and computers can’t live together. Theres an homework help programme for students in the library, my kids use it online at home and still have ‘reading time’ before bed. One doesn’t cancel out the other. Surely the more benefits the better?

Comment on Monday Muse: Next gen mobiles. How do you use them for librarianship? by techxplorer

techxplorer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:12:56 +0000

I’m beginning to be interested in these types of phones, although I don’t own an iPhone and when I do get one it will more likely be a phone running Android.

I can see a couple of issues that aren’t restricted just to librarianship.

As a vendor of software to an industry choosing the platform(s) to support is going to become and incresingly complex decision. While the iPhone is the popular example Android is gaining more traction and there are a number of other alternatives.

Which one would you as a vendor support? How would you choose?

Libraries as a market have other issues to consider. Which platforms are you going to target / support? Does it rely on which platforms your vendor(s) supports?

What do you plan on using the advanced functionality for? How do you plan on supporting it? Could you develop something in house? Do you have the staff / skills?

All of these are interesting questions. My concern though is that what will happen is that there will be a few libraries / users who will be the leaders, the others will take what the vendor provides, and the vendors will provide what they want to. In all of this the actual user can get lost.

The mobile industry as a whole is very interesting and one worth watching. In all of this thinking though there is one other aspect that is increasingly troubling me.

That is, what is going to be the impact of the network providers. You could have the best app, the best service, and have everything in place. But if the users network provider doesn’t give them sufficient data allowance at a reasonable cost the users will have to prioritise which apps they use and when.

So the final question, how do you make these apps relevant to your users?

Comment on Monday Muse: Next gen mobiles. How do you use them for librarianship? by Peta

Peta — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:57:11 +0000

Are any libraries using qr codes? These can be scanned by some mobile phones and then open up a browser for a particular address. Libraries could print these on bookmarks, loan dockets, and fliers so that users can get more info on their mobile device. These are very popular in Japan, and Telstra uses qr codes in some of their brochures. If enough others start putting these on signage and print materials they may take off here too.
I now have a qr code for my personal blog.

Comment on Monday Muse: Next gen mobiles. How do you use them for librarianship? by Neerav

Neerav — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:13:45 +0000

Glad to hear so many library ppl are thinking about the possibilities opened up by improvements in mobile/smartphone technology

I did a short presentation at Ignite Sydney on a similar topic http://www.slideshare.net/neeravbhatt/evolution-of-mobile-phones just the other day

1. Penny if you have any questions about Google Android phones send me an email via http://www.neeravbhatt.com/contactme.php, I own one myself and prior to that tested it for Optus

2. Peta much of what you mentioned is already close to being possible eg: libraries are slowly adopting mobile friendly OPAC’s and my mobile phone can scan book barcodes and tell me if its available via Google Books, Libraries Australia etc

Comment on Monday Muse: Next gen mobiles. How do you use them for librarianship? by jo

jo — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:14:07 +0000

I have been using Audioboo, an iphone app to record some of our customers at the public library where I work. I have interviewed our young writers group, and in honour of Library and Info week used it today to interview some of the parents who bring their children to storytime. I have also been interviewed by our local ABC radio station about using these technologies to promote the library )

I embedded the code into our YP blog, thus sharing the conversations with many others via a simple click.

These snippets are a great way to help promote and market the library and its services

Comment on Monday Muse: Next gen mobiles. How do you use them for librarianship? by Penny

Penny — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:15:01 +0000

Hi Katherine,

We’ve just asked for a “google phone” so we can do txt reference using Library H3lp. Waiting to see if we’re successful