1st Edition
Mobile Devices and the Library Handheld Tech, Handheld Reference
1. Introduction: The Mobile Revolution and The Handheld Librarian Joe Murphy 2. Launching a Text a Librarian Service: Cornell’s Preliminary Experiences Virginia Cole and Baseema B. Krkoska 3. Text Message Reference Service: Five Years Later Beth Stahr 4. Will They Come? Get Out the Word about Going Mobile Maura Keating 5. Mobilizing the Library’s Web Presence and Services: A Student-Library Collaboration to Create the Library’s Mobile Site and iPhone Application Matthew Connolly, Tony Cosgrave, and Baseema B. Krkoska 6. Collaborative Marketing for Virtual Reference: The My Info Quest Experience Beth Fuseler Avery, Karen J. Docherty, and Mary-Carol Lindbloom 7. From Internet to iPhone: Providing Mobile Geographic Access to Philadelphia’s Historic Photographs and other Special Collections Deborah Boyer 8. Mobile Use in Medicine: Taking a Cue from Specialized Resources and Devices Bohyun Kim and Marissa Ball 9. Tag, You’re It! Using QR Codes to Promote Library Services Beatrice Pulliam and Chris Landry 10. Are You Ready for E-readers? Anne Behler and Binky Lush 11. Left to Their Own Devices: The Future of Reference Services on Personal, Portable Information, Communication, and Entertainment Devices Thomas A. Peters 12. Mobile Technology and Medical Libraries: Worlds Collide Peg Burnette 13. Methods for Applied Mobile Digital Library Research: A Framework for Extensible Wayfinding Systems Jim Hahn, Michael Twidale, Alejandro Gutierrez, and Reza Farivar 14. One Block at a Time: Building a Mobile Site Step by Step Chad Haefele 15. Developing Library Websites Optimized for Mobile Devices Brendan Ryan 16. Smartphones, Smart Objects, and Augmented Reality Harry E. Pence 17. Making Twitter Work: A Guide for the Uninitiated, the Skeptical, and the Pragmatic Valerie Forrestal 18. SMS Reference Sian Brannon 19. Mobile Technologies from a Telecom Perspective Linda L. Woods 20. Is Mobile Marketing Right for Your Organization? Nancy Dowd 21. Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship: Report and Reader Survey Nina Gielen 22. The E-Book Lifestyle: An Academic Library Perspective Julie Shen 23. EBSCOhost Mobile Ron Burns and Sara Rofofsky Marcus
Biography
Joe Murphy, Yale University Science Libraries, serves as a member of the Handheld Librarian conference committee and leads the field of mobile technologies in libraries as its top speaker.
