Monday, July 12, 2004

More Links on PDAs in Libraries

Here are a few of the links that spurred my three blogs about PDAs in the library. These are in no particular order.

http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/
The Handheld Librarian is the blog spot for everything PDA and libraries. It is run by seven librarians and is the place to share ideas, news, and all sorts of stuff about working with PDA. A brief look and you will see blogs on Creating Content for Handhelds, Recommended PDA sites, Evaluating Handheld Medical Content, Online e-book Technology Talk, etc. In my humble opinion this is the one stop shopping of PDA info.

http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/
The Wireless Librarian, while not exactly devoted to PDAs is a great blog as well. As technology allows libraries to become wireless, more and more people will be using their PDA and expecting the libraries to have PDA resources.


http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litanatlforum/forumpreconf/handheld_handouts.doc
This links to a nine page word document entitled "Library Handheld Programs: Providing new levels of service" by Joe Williams MSLS of Texas A&M and Laura Osegueda MSLS from North Carolina State University. It was presented at the 2003 LITA National Forum held in October 2003. It explores PDAs and their projected usage increase and how libraries are supporting PDAs and their users. Case studies of library PDA projects are presented along with the challenges and rewards associated with the projects.

http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/PDA.html
Megan Fox the Web & Electronic Resources Librarian at Simmons College Libraries, explores PDAs in academic libraries. This web page is full of links to other libraries that are doing a variety of PDA stuff. One word of warning, this web page is excellent but was last updated in October of 2003 so some of the links might be outdated.

http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/PDA_Libraries_Printing.ppt
Megan Fox's PowerPoint presentation entitled "PDAs in Academic Libraries: We've Got the Whole World in Our Palms." It was presented May 2003 at the ACRL Western NY / Ontario Chapter meeting. This presentation dives into the question of why PDAs are so "in" and what libraries are doing with them.

http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/pdas4libs.html#pdalinks
LibrarySupportStaff.com has a nice web page with links on PDAs and wireless technology for libraries.

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