Designing Mobile Libraries for Research and Instruction

Mobile Information Literacy:

supporting today’s peripatetic students

Designing Mobile Libraries for Research Instruction / SUNYLA 2012

Academia

Lehman website statistics

Libraries

…Today’s students are increasingly nomadic learners.

MOBILE INFORMATION

LITERACY

MOBILE INFORMATION

LITERACY

Teach students and faculty how to use mobile apps and mobile websites

to access, retrieve, and evaluate reliable

information

Teach It!

1. Topic

2. Subtopics

3. Search for information

4. Compile data

5. Synthesize information

6. Write paper!

AcademicSearchComplete

Research Process 3/16/12

Academic Search Complete Mobile

Class in Session

Suggested Apps & Mobile Websites

http://libguides.lehman.edu/mobiledatabases

Survey Results

78%

22%

Survey Results82%

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52%

29%

19%

52%

36%

55%

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52%

Survey Results

49% 8%27%15%

Survey Results

60%

27%

3%

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Survey Results

60%

27%

3%

8%

Problems Devices

Wi-Fi access/bandwidth

Classroom equipment

Obstacles Authentication & link resolvers

Staff training & in-house technical support

Mobile database availability

PromotionPromotion Library website (desktop & mobile)

Colleagues, faculty, students

Social networking sites

Classes/workshops

Library signage

Stefanie HavelkaAssistant ProfessorElectronic Resources-Web Services LibrarianLehman College / CUNYstefanie.havelka@lehman.cuny.edu718-960-7763@steffihavelka

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