Mobile Library Services: Best Practices (Best Practices in Library Services) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810887525 ISBN 13: 9780810887527

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2013

Synopsis

Just as Andrew Carnegie’s support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple’s launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services. Libraries, like every other kind of organization, must now make their services—not just their catalogs—available on an array of mobile devices.

Mobile Library Servicesprovides 11 proven ways to reach out to mobile users and increase your library’s relevance to their day-to-day lives. Librarians detail how they created mobile apps to how they went mobile on a shoestring budget. Written by public, academic, and special librarians, these 11 best practices offer models for libraries of every type and size.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Harmon is an Executive Editor for the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. His background includes work in special, public, and school libraries.

Michael Messina is a reference librarian at the State University of New York’s Maritime College. He has also worked as a researcher at The Brooklyn Academy of Music Archives. The former publisher of Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Limelight Editions, he is a coeditor of Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays (Northwestern University Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810887525
• ISBN 13: 9780810887527
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162
• Editor: Harmon Charles