1. What The Text Is Happening? Texting, Mobile Communications and the Academic Library MACRL Webinar – May 17, 2010 1

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5. Library Text Reference and Applications Maui Community College 5

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7. Text Ur Lib?Research Study  Survey Monkey convenience sample  16 dimensional questions / 5 demographic  Cell phone ownership/type/text usage  Awareness /Usage of other SMS services  Question asking behavior at Criss  Preferences in reference 7

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19. Thank you Audrey DeFrank Acting Dean of Libraries University of Nebraska at Omaha adefrank@unomaha.edu Linda Parker Social Sciences Reference Librarian Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library University of Nebraska at Omaha lparker@unomaha.edu For a copy of this presentation: http://library.unomaha.edu To read conference proceeding paper on this project: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/46/0c/6b.pdf 19