Readings

Galganski, Carol, Tom Peters and Lori Bell. (2002). Exploring PlanetPDA: The Librarian as Astronaut, Innovator, and Expert. Computers In Libraries Vol. 22, No. 9. October 2002. http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/oct02/galganski_peters_bell.htm

Embrey, Theresa A. Ross.(2002) Today's PDAs Can Put OPAC in the Palm of Your Hand. Computers in Libraries Vol 22, No. 3, March 2002.
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/mar02/embrey.htm

Bennett, D. (2000). Palm on the Farm. PalmPower June 2000.
http://www.palmpower.com/issuesprint/issue200006/farm.html

Jones, M. L. W., R. Rieger, et al. (2000). Live from the Stacks: User Feedback on Mobile Computers and Wireless Tools for Library Patrons. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM conference on ACM 2000 digital libraries, San Antonio, TX USA. http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/dl/336597/p95-jones/

Digital library research is made more robust and effective when end-user opinions and viewpoints inform the research, design, and development process. A rich understanding of user tasks and contexts is especially necessary when investigating the use of mobile computers in traditional and digital library environments, since the nature and scope of the research questions at hand remain relatively undefined. This paper outlines findings from a library technologies user survey and on-site mobile library access prototype testing, and presents future research directions that can be derived from the results of these two studies.

Rieger, R. and G. Gay (1997). Using Mobile Computing to Enhance Field Study. CSCL. http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cscl/papers/rieger.pdf

Our research explores the pedagogical, technical, and evaluative issues surrounding the use of a new generation of hand-held, highly portable computers for teaching in the natural sciences. A primary goal is to develop polot curricula that bring multimedia projects to the outdor laboratory. Prototypes are being developed for data retrieval and input. It is hypothesized that learners will flourish in situations that provide an opportunity to test skills and theories in the "just-in-time" and "nomadic" field context in which they are used. Can computers enhance the outdoor field experience by supportin team collaboration for students and teaching staff? This paper sets the background for the mobile computing research project we have initiated, and describes two prototype field applications developed for mobile learning environments.

Varnum, K. (2000). Information @ Your Fingertips: Porting Library Services to Your PDA.” Online 24(5): 15-17.
http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OLtocs/OLtocsept00.html

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