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Facts and figures: Use of the Notre Dame Libraries Mobile App in 2012 Facts and figures: Use of the Notre Dame Libraries Mobile App in 2012

Why academic libraries are going mobile From the Notre Dame Spring 2012 Mobile Summit: Mobile is overtaking traditional web-based use of many ND webpages Erik Runyon, Manager of Interactive Development AgencyND Research ON mobile, research WITH mobile are the future expectations. Nick Laneman, Director of Notre Dames Wireless Institute

Canalys estimates that million smart phones were shipped in 2011, an increase of over 60% from Canalys Canalys estimates that million smart phones were shipped in 2011, an increase of over 60% from Canalys More than 104 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2012, up 14 percent versus November. Reported by comScore.comScore More than 104 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2012, up 14 percent versus November. Reported by comScore.comScore Global sales of smartphones will top 1 billion units in 2014, according to one analysts estimate. reported by Todd Wasserman, Mashables business editor.Todd Wasserman Global sales of smartphones will top 1 billion units in 2014, according to one analysts estimate. reported by Todd Wasserman, Mashables business editor.Todd Wasserman

Mobile is ramping faster than Desktop Internet and will be bigger than most think… …regarding the pace of change, we believe more users will likely connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years Morgan Stanley reports:

This years NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less.NMC Horizon Report Note: The 2011 report predicted that internet capable mobile devices would out-number computers within the next year. That means now. NMC Horizon Report 2012 Higher Education Edition

Web-enabled phones have access to all of the same online resources that are available on laptop or desktop computers. istockphoto.com

How Libraries are going mobile: To App or not to App? A recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education states: …colleges are shifting their attention from stand-alone applications that can be downloaded from an app store to mobile-optimized versions of their Web sites.Chronicle of Higher Education There are two goals, one is for library web pages to have a single source that adapts to the particular device - it is called responsive design. The 2 nd goal is to have appropriate features; the desktop experience might have more functionality, the mobile one less functionality based on the particular application. It is really about the applications responding to the devices while also getting the efficiency of single sourcing. -- Mark Dehmlow Head, Web and Information Technology Systems Department, University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries

How else can academic libraries support content on mobile devices? Include mobile information literacy skills in standard library instruction Support Metasearch or other unified resource discovery tools on library mobile websites that search more than one database at a time ubject/computer-engineering ubject/computer-engineering Seek support from database vendors for searching using mobile devices Construct LibGuides and other helpful tools. WPI has a Libguide for Research Apps:

Nature IEEE Examples of currently available mobile research apps and how they deliver full text content:

The Mobile Libraries Wiki is Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki is created by Meredith Farkas, Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University in Oregon. For more information:

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Bibliography – Mobile Devices and Libraries Anon Horizon Report 2012 Higher Education Edition. Booth, Char, California Community College California Community College Student Library & Technology Engagement Survey: 2011 Pilot, Final Report. engagement-survey-2011-pilot-final-report engagement-survey-2011-pilot-final-report Canalys estimates that million smart phones were shipped in 2011, an increase of over 60% from overtake-client-pcs-2011_0.pdfhttp:// overtake-client-pcs-2011_0.pdf comScore "More than 104 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2012, up 14 percent versus November." U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share Havelka, Stefanie, and Alevtina Verbovetskaya Mobile information literacy. C&RL News: Morgan Stanley reports "The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.

Nature Rauch, Marta, 12 Key Mobile Usability Guidelines to Implement Now Rauch, Marta, Mobile Documentation: Usability Guidelines, and Considerations for Providing Documentation on Kindle, Tablets, and Smartphones Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2011 IEEE International DOI: /IPCC Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): Salisbury, Lutishoor, Jozef Laincz, and Jeremy J. Smith, Science and Technology Undergraduate Students' Use of the Internet, Cell Phones and Social Networking Sites to Access Library Information Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship No. 69 Spring, 2012, DOI: /F4SB43PD Seeholzer, Jamie, and Joseph A Salem Library on the Go: A Focus Group Study of the Mobile Web and the Academic Library.C&RL 73 (2): Wasserman, Todd Mashables business editor. Global sales of smartphones will top 1 billion units in 2014, according to one analysts estimate. sales-to-hit-1-billion/ sales-to-hit-1-billion/ WPI has a Libguide for Research Apps