Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning (ACRL Publications in Librarianship) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838988792 ISBN 13: 9780838988794

Verlag: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017

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Mobile technology has become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of today’s students and faculty. The maturing of this technology has led to our becoming more and more comfortable in a world where digital information flows seamlessly from screen to screen as we move about our daily lives. This evolution presents both risks and opportunities for academic librarians, operating in a field that is both uniquely tied to a static sense of “place” in the public imagination and at the same time passionately devoted to the freedom, spread, and accessibility of information for the public at large.

In seventeen chapters ranging from A Mobile-First Library Site Redesign to Mobile Technology Support for Field Research to Virtual Reality Library Environments, Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries explores how librarians around the world are working to adapt their spaces, collections, teaching, and services to the new possibilities presented by mobile technology. This is a detailed and thorough examination of technology that’s emerging now and how to incorporate it into your library to help the students and researchers of both today and tomorrow.

Leveraging the potential of smartphones, tablets, and even wearable technologies allows academic librarians to further expand their reach to students and faculty beyond the library’s walls. Furthermore, by understanding how mobile technology changes the behavior of our users, we can gain new insights into their needs and make improvements to our traditional services and spaces to better contribute to faculty research and student learning.

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Robin Canuel is an associate librarian at McGill University and currently serves as Head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at McGill. He has coauthored several articles on a variety of topics, including tailoring information literacy instruction to specific constituencies, the design and use of mobile websites for academic libraries, using tablets for teaching and research, and leveraging mobile apps in academic libraries. He earned a BA from McGill University in 2000, and his MLIS in 2002, also from McGill.

Chad Crichton served as Coordinator of Reference, Research and Instruction at the University of Toronto Scarborough for eight years. He is currently the campus Liaison Librarian for both the Department of English and the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media. He has presented on the topic of mobile technology at library conferences in both North America and Europe and has also published a number of scholarly articles on the topic. Chad earned an Honours BA from Queen’s University in 1998, an MA in English literature from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1999, and his MLIS from McGill University in 2002.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Association of College & Research Libraries
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0838988792
• ISBN 13: 9780838988794
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 269
• Herausgeber: Canuel Robin, Crichton Chad
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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