Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services: A handbook - Couverture souple

Walsh, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856048098 ISBN 13 : 9781856048095

Editeur : Facet Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This is an essential practical guide for all information professionals who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services.
Packed with easy to implement ideas, practical examples and international case studies, this provides you with the ultimate toolkit, exploring ideas as simple as renewals and reminders to the more complex such as access to e-books and virtual worlds. Jargon-free coverage of the background and context to mobile delivery will enable you to fully understand the challenges and embrace the opportunities, getting to grips with critical issues such as what sort of services users really want.
Key topics covered include:

• context including market penetration, range and functionality of devices
• texting
• apps vs. mobile websites
• mobile information literacy vs. other information literacies
• mobiles in teaching
• linking the physical and virtual worlds via mobile devices
• E-books for mobiles
• the future of mobile delivery.

Readership: This is an essential practical guide for all information professionals who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services. It would also be invaluable for museum staff facing the same challenges. Library and information students and academics will find it a useful introduction to the topic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Walsh is an Academic Librarian at Huddersfield University who has written, researched and presented widely on the application of mobile technologies within the library environment, information literacy, the use of active learning and using web 2.0 technologies. He won the UC&R Innovation Award in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Facet Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856048098
• ISBN 13: 9781856048095
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible