Everything Mobile @ ALA Midwinter 2011

Everything Mobile @ ALA Midwinter

Rebecca BlakistonInstructional Services LibrarianWebsite Product ManagerUniversity of Arizona Libraries

More vendors are going mobile.

13th Annual Digital Libraries Symposium

1. Social Recommendations2. Social mobile photo-sharing

3. Social entertainment checking

- Joe Murphy, Yale University

“The biggest challenge is how to manage change. We need to engage,

understand, and adapt it to our needs.”

– Joe Murphy

1. Understand users.2. Know the context.

3. Create simple interactions.

- Kevin Rundblad, UC Los Angeles

Find out more: http://about.me/rundblad

Understand users.

Simul8 Group is a good example of one way to do this.

Know the context.

Create simple interactions.

Pew Report: Mobile Access 2010http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010

mobile floor maps

computer availability

reserving study rooms

web cams

location-based applications

Jim Hahn on rapid ethnography

Evviva Weinraub & Hannah Rempel

onputting the fun back into mobile websites