Knowledge in Your Pocket: Mobile Technology and Libraries

Introduction

Libraries on the Run: Adding Mobile Access to Academic Libraries

Terry will discuss steps such as choosing a vendor, setting up the catalog search, promoting the product to the campus community, deciding which added pages to include and to leave behind, and evaluating usage.

Terry Ballard earned his MLS from the University of Arizona in 1989, and has worked since as an academic systems librarian in the New York area. He is the author of dozens of articles concerning library automation and two books - most recently "Google this! Putting Google and other social media sites to work for your library," published by Chandos in 2012. A frequent speaker at library conferences and webinars, he is currently the Special Projects Librarian at the College of New Rochelle. 

Using Mobile Technology for Assessment, Data Visualization, and Advocacy

Learn about the different types of apps you can use in library assessment. Get ideas on tools you can use to visualize your data for discovery or storytelling, and find out how to advocate for your library using your assessment results and mobile applications.

Rachel Besara is an Assessment Librarian at Florida State University Libraries. In this role, her duties include data collection, data management, statistics, and report writing. She is the Immediate Past-Chair of the National Library Leadership and Management Association's Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation Section (LLAMA MAES). Her professional interests include data visualization, evidence-based librarianship, ROI, and qualitative assessments of user populations.

mHealth and mLearning: Global and Local Initiatives and Strategy at Penn Libraries

nne will give overview and history of the UPenn global activities related to mobile technologies including mLearning and mHealth. She will also address how this work has informed and influenced our mobile initiatives and strategy at Penn Libraries.

Anne K. Seymour, MS, is the Associate Director for Information Services at the Biomedical Library of the University of Pennsylvania. The Biomedical Library serves the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and life sciences community at Penn. Her responsibilities include oversight of research and literature review services for this community as well as library support of evidence-based practice curricula in the schools of medicine and nursing and in graduate medical education at the UPHS. Ms. Seymour has applied her expertise in evidence-based practice, health sciences information resources and informatics to the global health arena and to Penn’s global health partnerships in Botswana and Guatemala.