Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Stephen Abram -- Introduction / Gill Needham -- Education for all with mobile technology: the role of libraries / Mohamed Ally -- Preparing for the mobile world: experimenting with changing technologies and applications for library services / Colin Bates and Rebecca Carruthers -- Enhancing open distance learning library services with mobile technologies / Jenny Raubenheimer -- Use of mobile phones in the delivery of consumer health information / Vahideh Zarea Gavgani -- Deploying an e-reader loan service at an online university / Anna Zuniga-Ruiz and Cristina Lopez-Perez -- Mobile service providers and library services in a multi-campus library / Ela Volatabu Qica -- Using mobile technology to deliver information in audio format: learning by listening / Margie Wallin, Kate Kelly and Annika McGinley -- Sound selection: podcasts prove positive / Daniel McDonald and Roger Hawcroft -- Staff preparedness to implement mobile technologies in libraries / Sarah-Jane Saravani and Gaby Haddow -- Apps and attitudes: towards an understanding of the m-librarian's professional make-up / Kate Davis and Helen Partridge -- There's a librarian in my pocket: mobile information literacy at UTS Library / Sophie McDonald -- Exploring student engagement with mobile technologies / Julie Cartwright, Sally Cummings, Bernadette Royal, Michelle Turner and JoAnne Witt -- It's just not the same: mobile information literacy / Andrew Walsh and Peter Godwin -- The students have iPods: an opportunity to use iPods as a teaching tool in the library / Iris Ambrose -- Mobile services of the National Library of China / Wei Dawei, Xie Qiang and Niu Xianyun -- India's mobile technology infrastructure to support m-services for education and libraries / Seema Chandhok and Parveen Babbar -- Use and user context of mobile computing: a rapid ethnographic study / Jim Hahn -- Meeting the needs of library users on the mobile web / Hassan Sheikh and Keren Mills -- Mobile dynamic display systems for library opening hours / Keiso Katsura -- Device-independent and user-tailored delivery of mobile library service content / Damien Meere, Ivan Ganchev, Mairtin O Droma, Micheal O hAodha and Stanimir Stojanov -- Designing effective mobile web presence / Sam Moffatt -- Conclusion / Mohamed Ally.

The latest installment in the popular M-Libraries series brings together new contributions from experts around the world offering best practices on delivering resources to users through mobile technologies. The authors discuss the development of mobile services, mobile users and requirements, emerging technical developments including new platforms, devices, and applications, and reflections and feedback on new service models. This cutting-edge guide is essential reading for information professionals of all types, along with policy makers, researchers, developers, publishers, suppliers, and LIS students.