新作坊

Supporting the Experimental & Innovative M-Library Community

摘要：

The growth of mobile technologies in society has led to both increased opportunities and increased expectations for libraries to use mobile technologies to deliver resources and services. Most of the work in this area (which we refer to in this article as m-libraries) has been experimental in nature. There have been some innovative projects and pockets of good practice, though much of this is unreported. In order to address this issue, the UK Joint Information Systems Committee funded a programme of work on Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries, which ran from November 2011 until September 2012 and was comprised of five institutional innovation projects and one community support project. The community support project, managed by Evidence Base at Birmingham City University in partnership with Owen Stephens Consulting, aimed to support both the projects within the programme and the wider m-libraries community. It achieved this by focusing on two main areas of work: evidence gathering and community building. Adapted from the source document.