La plupart des services web des bibs du MIT sont disponibles dans une version pour téléphone portable.

Non, ce n'est pas (que) pour nos jeunes étudiants ou les ados. Il n'y a pas que les représentants de la soi-disant génération Y qui utilisent des GSM... Vous et moi, par exemple, non?

(source: MIT Libraries News, 16/09/09)

MIT Mobile Web - A partir d'un tél. portable: http://m.mit.edu

La conférence m-Libraries s'est déroulée du 21 au 24 juin à Vancouver:

"This conference aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via a growing plethora of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments."

Programme et documents disponibles sur le blog Mobile Libraries

The Handheld Librarian 2009 – An online conference about Mobile Library Services

Cette conférence en ligne aura lieu le 30 juillet.

"More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide services on these devices as use increases.

The first ever Handheld Librarian Online on July 30, 2009 is the place to learn about these and other topics related to using wireless and handheld devices in your library. The program -- sponsored by Alliance Library System, LearningTimes and Infoquest -- will include a variety of ways to collaborate, network and learn from a great group of experts in the field. In addition to live interactive webcasts, we will have a collection of available resources, discussions boards, and access to the recording of all live events for one year after the conference."

• Programme

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RefWorks Announces Launch Of RefMobile

"RefWorks announced the launch of RefMobile, a new interface that enables students and researchers to use the RefWorks web-based research management service from anywhere, via web-enabled mobile phones, smart phones, and personal data assistants (PDAs)."

(source: Mobile Libraries, 01/05/09)

arXiview est une application développée pour l'iPhone.

Fonctionnalités:

* Browsing arXiv categories by date. Keep up to date not just on the latest days posting, but postings from the last week or any date you wish. The first iPhone arxiv browser to offer full date browsing.
* Search the arXiv by author, title, full text, with and without restrictions to specific categories of the arXiv.
* Save preprints to your iPhone for later, offline browsing. Organize your offline readings in self-named folders.
* Email yourself or others preprint information for later reference.
* Read PDFs in both landscape and portrait mode.
* Arrange arXiv categories and subcategories in an order of your preference, for quick access.

Voir aussi:
On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies
(source: Library Technology Reports / 2008 / vol. 44, n. 5 / pp. 1-48 / en libre accès sur E-LIS)

La différence mobile

"Plus on se connecte au web à partir de son mobile, plus on le fait depuis son ordinateur - et vice-versa - explique une récente étude du Pew Internet & American Life Project."

(source: Transnets, 15/04/09)

Le reader du futur sera pliable et autonome

(source: eBouquin, 19/04/09)

Les limites des machines à imprimer…

(source: Lafeuille, 24/04/09)

Always on: Libraries in a world of permanent connectivity
(source: Lorcan Dempsey, First Monday, vol. 14, n° 1, jan. 09)

Mobile communication has been more widely adopted more quickly than any other technology ever (Castells, et al., 2007). It represents a diffusion of communications and computational capacity into a growing part of our research, learning and social activities. It has resonated with emerging youth behaviors, providing support for distinctive patterns of social interaction and group formation, information use and personal expression.
Diffuse networking changes how we coordinate our resources to achieve goals. For example, our use of time and space changes. Timeshifting is routine as students may listen to or watch lectures in the gym or on the train. The use of space to support ad hoc rendezvous and social learning is becoming more important.
As networking spreads, we have multiple connection points which offer different grades of experience (the desktop, the cell phone, the xBox or Wii, the GPS system, the smartphone, the ultra-portable notebook, and so on). While these converge in various ways, they are also optimized for different purposes. A natural accompaniment of this mesh of connection points is a move of many services to the cloud, available on the network across these multiple devices and environments. This means that an exclusive focus on the institutional website as the primary delivery mechanism and the browser as the primary consumption environment is increasingly partial.
Students are results-oriented and value convenience. This emphasis coupled with the design constraints on some devices promotes a need to get to relevance quickly. Socialization, personalization and location awareness become very important.
Libraries have been working to develop network-ready services. Mobile communication intensifies this activity and adds new challenges as they look at what it means to be mobile-ready. This has organizational implications as a shift of emphasis towards workflow integration around the learner or researcher creates new relationships with other service organizations on campus. It also has implications for how space is used, for library skills, and for how collections are developed. We can see the impact of mobile communication on services in two ways. First, services may be made mobile-ready, as with special mobile interfaces for library services, alerting services, and so on. Second, mobilization continues the restructuring of services, organizations and attention that networking has brought about. Think here of how to socialize and personalize services; how to adapt to collection and service use which spans personal, institutional, and cloud environments; how to position and promote the library ‘brand’ as services become atomized and less ‘visible’ on the network; and more complex questions about what best to do locally and what to source with collaborative arrangements or third parties.

Read/WriteWeb revient sur les recommandations du W3C relatives à la manière de vérifier le niveau de "portabilité" d'un site web. Cf. le service (gratuit) W3C mobileOK checker.

Kroski, Ellyssa (2008) On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies . Library Technology Reports 44(5):pp. 1-48.
(déposé sur E-LIS, 02/11/08)

"This report looks at the mobile Web landscape including, mobile devices, mobile Web applications, library mobile initiatives, as well as how to create a mobile experience and get started using the mobile Web."

L. Dempsey signale que l'Opac de la Tripod library (E.-U.), permet d'envoyer une partie des références bibliographiques d'une ressource sur son portable.

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