Session Information

The joint TOTS/UBC Library Journal Club session on Mobile Devices will be held on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 from 3pm-5pm in the Dodson Room in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Speakers

• Jaimie Miller, Library Assistant, Woodward Biomedical Library
• Paul Joseph, Librarian, Information Systems & Technology
• Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
• Lindsay Ure, Librarian, David Lam Management Research Library
• Katherine Miller, Librarian, Woodward Biomedical Library

Mobile Websites and Tools

This is just a handful of sites. Please feel free to add or suggest others!

• Flickr Mobile: http://m.flickr.com/#/home
• Google Android: http://www.android.com/
• Google Mobile: http://www.google.ca/mobile/
• Library Success, "M-Libraries": http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=M-Libraries

  Libraries offering mobile interfaces or applications

• Meebo Mobile: http://www.meebo.com/meebomobile/
• New York Public Library Mobile site: http://m.nypl.org/
• RefMobile (from RefWorks): http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/Refworks/help/Working_with_RefMobile.htm
• Ryerson Library Mobile site: http://www.ryerson.ca/library/mobile/
• Twitter: http://m.twitter.com/login
• WorldCat Mobile (Pilot): http://www.worldcat.org/mobile/default.jsp

Further Reading

• UBC Mobile Website presentation: Mobile.UBC.TOTS.pdf
• 2nd International m-Libraries Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 23-24 2009. Presentations available at: http://ocs.sfu.ca/m-libraries/index.php/mlib/mlib2009/schedConf/presentations

• The Library's Place in a Mobile Space, Graham McCarthy and Sally Wilson, Ryerson University (m-Libraries Conference 2009): http://ocs.sfu.ca/m-libraries/index.php/mlib/mlib2009/paper/view/35/33

• Mobile Libraries Blog: http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/ 
• M-Libraries: Information Use on the Move, A report from the Arcadia Programme, by Keren Mills: http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/M-Libraries_report.pdf
• Pew Internet and American Life Project. "The Mobile Difference" (March, 2009): http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/5-The-Mobile-Difference--Typology.aspx