New Additions To The Mobile Libraries Blog | July/August 2009

[gerrymck]

Colleagues/

 

It May Be Shark Week On The Discovery Channel, But Here At The _Mobile Libraries_ Blog  … It's E-Book Week (More And Less) ... [:-)

 

/Gerry

 

>>>R ead An E-Book Week | March 8-14 2009

 

http://tinyurl.com/ktzbzd

 

>>> Sony Cuts Prices on E-Books / Introduces New Readers

 

http://tinyurl.com/mu8fq8

 

>>> Twitter Biomedical Journals

 

http://tinyurl.com/nlf7kn

 

>>> dMob Mobile Metrics Report: June 2009

 

http://tinyurl.com/nuyqk9

 

>>>EQ > A Campus-Wide E-Textbook Initiative

 

http://tinyurl.com/lu46tj

 

>>> MobilizedTV: Content On Mobile Devices

 

http://tinyurl.com/l8d23u

 

>>> CaseWesternReserveUniversity Students To Use Kindle For TextBooks / Fall 2009

 

http://tinyurl.com/nqm3jg

 

>>>SEFLIN 2009 Conference > New Technologies: Libraries & Beyond Conferencee > July 30, 2009

 

http://tinyurl.com/lbvmox

 

>>> Libraries Lending ... Kindles

 

http://tinyurl.com/l75y29

 

>>> Mobile Devices Within Instruction Free Webinar / August 19 2009

 

http://tinyurl.com/l59fk7

 

>>> No Shelf Required: A Moderated Discussion Of eBook Issues

 

http://tinyurl.com/ny62b2

 

>>> Annals of Reading > A New Page > Can The Kindle Really Improve On The Book?

 

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ml6hya

 

>>> eBook Reading Devices: A LibGuide

 

http://tinyurl.com/nas6rf

 

>>> ALA [2009] Poster Session: Mobilizing to Support Mobile Users

 

http://tinyurl.com/nac88g

 

>>> CDC Mobile - m.cdc.gov

 

http://tinyurl.com/l9b5vx

 

>>> Mobile Devices in Health Care: Smartphones and PDAs

 

http://tinyurl.com/kw996y

 

>>> Mobile Services In Libraries / Call For Submissions / Reference Services Review

 

http://tinyurl.com/l7e8o3

 

>>> Thomson Reuters' Mobile Strategy

 

http://tinyurl.com/mjfhdn

 

Happy Wednesday / Thursday ...

 

/Gerry

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

 gerr...@iastate.edu  

[Wilfred Drew]

Why is no one discussing how well library databases work in various mobile devices?  I have not found any research on this at all.  I have seen the recent article in CIL concerning web opacs.

 

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Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.

Assistant Professor

Librarian, Systems and Tech Services

Strengths: Ideation, Input, Learner, Command, Analytical

E-mail: dr...@tc3.edu

Follow the library: http://twitter.com/TC3Library

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[gerrymck]

Bill/Group

 

I do/did profile a few A&I in my Handheld Librarian Online  Conference 2009 presentation "M Is For Service" last week

 

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/M-Is-For-Service.ppt ]

/Gerry

[Wilfred Drew]

How about an organized effort to look at all of the databases, especially full text, that we subscribe to?

 

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Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.

Assistant Professor

Librarian, Systems and Tech Services

Strengths: Ideation, Input, Learner, Command, Analytical

E-mail: dr...@tc3.edu

Follow the library: http://twitter.com/TC3Library

PPlease consider the environment before printing this e-mail or document.

 

[Alison Miller]

I think that this would be a very useful effort.  I look forward to input on this.


Thank you,

Alison Miller
Researcher in Distance Education
The Internet Public Library
Florida State University


There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come ~ Victor Hugo