Programme
Photos from m-Libraries 2009 Conference in Vancouver, B.C. (Courtesy of Conference delegates) Sunday 21 June 2009 12:00 - 7.00pm - Registration Opens Registration Desk, Main Foyer @ Irving K Barber Learning Centre
Monday 22 June 2009 7am - 7.00pm - Registration Opens 9.30 - 12.30pm - Preconference Workshops Workshop 1: Skills on the Move: a “Hands-On” Workshop Creating Mobile Learning Content (Learning Objects) Anne Hewling & Hassan SheikhThe Open University, UK Workshop 2: Mobile Design: InteractiveMultimedia to Support Learning andTeaching Mohamed Ally, Steve Schafer, Colin Elliott, Yang Guanbing, Bill Geng, Tony Tin, & Tracey Woodburn, Athabasca University,Canada 12.30 - 1.30pm - Lunch 1.30 - 4.00pm - Preconference Workshops Workshop 3: Mobile Library Technical Development: Opportunities and Challenges Hassan Sheikh, The Open University & Tony Tin, Athabasca University, Canada Workshop 4: Researching m-Libraries: Strategies for Investigating andEvaluating our Mobile LibraryApplicationsAnne Hewling & Keren Mills,The Open University, UK Tours 1:30pm - Gather for Tours - See TOURS for details: Meet at Registration Desk 2.00 - 4.00pm - Tours Various locations 5.00 - 10.00pm - Dinner at Granville Island Meet bus by the Irving K BarberLearning Centre at 4:45pm fortransport to Granville Island
Tuesday 23 June 2009 7am - 7.00pm - Registration Desk 7.00 - 8.00am - Morning Beach Walk (Meet at Registration Desk) 8.00 - 8:45am - Continental Breakfast, First Nations Longhouse 9.00 - 9.20am - Conference Welcome, First Nations Longhouse Leonora Crema, Associate University 9.20 - 10.30am - S1 Opening Keynote, First Nations Longhouse Keynote Speaker, Lorcan Dempsey, 10:30 - 11:00am - Coffee Break, First Nations Longhouse 11:00 - 1:00pm - S2 Plenary, First Nations Longhouse Chair - Nancy Levesque, University Library Director, Thompson Rivers University, Canada Ken Banks, Founder of kiwanja.net, UK, Where Books Are Few: The Role of Mobile Phones in the Developing World Carie Page, Programme Coordinator forthe EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, USA - Anytime, Anywhere: Reaching the Always-On Generation throughMobility Paul Nelson, NHS Choices, Department ofHealth, UK - Partnerships for Community Health Improvement Through MobileDevices Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, USA - Why m-Libraries? Making the Case for Innovation 1:00 - 2:15pm - Lunch (First Nations LonghouseTransfer to the Irving K Barber Learning Centre for afternoon sessions) 2:30 - 4:00pm - Concurrent Sessions, Irving K Barber Learning Centre S3 Mobile Technologies Mobile GPS Devices and Geospatial Collection Development in the Library, David Sharp, Carleton University Library, Canada QR Codes and their Applications for Libraries – a Case Study, Laurence Lockton & Kate Robinson,University of Bath, UK Mobile Digital Library for Integration Web Resources in China, Chengyu Zhang, Tsinghua University, China S4 New Mobile Services Portable Science: Podcasting as anOutreach Tool for a Large academic Science and Engineering Library, Eugene Barsky, Aleteia Greenwood, & Kevin Lindstrom, UBC Library, Canada The Library’s Place in a Mobile Space, Graham McCarthy & Sally Wilson,Ryerson University Library, Canada Piloting Mobile Services, Karen A. Coombs, University of Houston, USA S5 Mobile Libraries for Learning Information Literacy Gets Mobile!, Peter Godwin, University of Bedfordshire, UK Mobile Technology and m-Learning in Indian Libraries, Parveen Babbar & Seema Chandhok, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India Mobilising the Development ofInformation Skills – for Students on the Move and for the Workplace – Two Studies of Mobile Delivery in Practice, Anne Hewling & Hassan Sheikh, The Open University, UK S6 Mobile Users Study Regarding Temple University Libraries’ “Ask Us Upstairs” Initiative, Fred Rowland & Adam Shambaugh, Temple University, USA Bridging the Mobile Divide – UsingMobile Devices to Engage the Xand Y Generations, Faye Jackson & Phil Cheeseman,Roehampton University, UK UK Academic Library Users’ Expectations of m-Library Services, Keren Mills, The Open University, UK 4:00 - 4:30pm - Refreshments
5:30 - 10:00pm - Conference Banquet, Sage Bistro, University Centre Welcome from Dr. Peter Ward, University Librarian, pro tem, UBC Library, Canada Featured Speaker: Dr. Frits Pannekoek, President, Athabasca University, Canada
Wednesday 24 June 2009 7am - 5.00pm - Registration Desk, Main Foyer, Irving K Barber Learning Centre 7.00 - 8.00am - West Coast Yoga Session, Studio, Student Recreation Centre 8.00 - 9.00am - Continental Breakfast, The Gallery, Irving K Barber Learning Centre 9.15 - 10.15am - Concurrent Sessions, Irving K Barber Learning Centre S7 Mobile Technologies Evolution of Modern Library Services: The Progression into the Mobile Domain, Ivan Ganchev, Máirtín O’Droma, Damien Meere, Mícheál Ó hAodha, University of Limerick, Ireland & Stanimir Stojanov, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Mobile Library: Connecting New Generations of Learners to the Library in the Mobile Age, Dr. Mohamed Ally, Colin Elliot, Steve Schafer, & Tony Tin, Athabasca University, Canada S9 Mobile Technologies Supporting Development Encouraging Library Usage Among Students in African UniversityLibraries: The Case of Emerald Group Publishing and the UniversityLibrary of Swaziland, John Paul Anbu, Eric Broug & Paul Coyne University of Swaziland, Swaziland andEmerald Group Publishing, UK Enhancing Library Access through theUse of Mobile Technology: Case Study of Information Services Providedby Six Mobile Companies in Bangladesh, Nafiz Zaman Shuva, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh S10 Mobile Services For Distance Learners m-Learning Libraries in DistanceEducation: A Proposed Model for IGNOU, Parveen Babbar & Seema Chandok, Indira Ghandi National Open University, India m-Library in an m-University: ChangingModels in the Open University of Catalonia, Dora Perez & Pep Torn, Open University of Catalonia, Spain 10:15 - 10:45am - Coffee Break, The Gallery, Irving K Barber Learning Centre 10:45 - 12:15pm - Concurrent Sessions, Irving K Barber Learning Centre S11 Mobile Technologies Customer Service Conveyance andConvergence in m-Libraries: Review ofCurrent, Emerging, and Proposing Standards, Abiodun Solanke, University of Richmond, USA Enabling Discovery of Digital Collections on Mobile Devices, Tito Sierra & Markus Wust, North Carolina State University Libraries, USA Mobile Technologies and Their Possibilities for the Library, University of the South Pacific, Elizabeth C. Reade Fong, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji S12 New Mobile Services UCLA and Yale Science Libraries Data on Cyberlearning and ReferenceServices Via Mobile Devices, Alison Armstrong, Michelle Jacobs, Joe Murphy & Brena Smith, UCLA, USA NYU Results of an Analysis of More Than 300 SMS Transactions Conducted in the Spring,Summer and Fall, Scott Collard, Alexa Pearce & Kara Whatley, NYU Libraries, USA Bibliographic Ontology (FRBR) fore-Books: a Guide for Mobile DigitalLibrary Collection Developers, Jim Hahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA S13 Mobile Libraries for Learning What is Mobile Learning and What DoStudents Expect – How CanLibraries Help Fill the Gap? A Report on a Dedicated 6-Month Research Project from LIS at LJMU, Vicki Owen & Will Reid, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Create Mobile Content Using a Mobile -Friendly Knowledge ManagementSystem: The Athabasca University Experience, Dr. Mohamed Ally, Steve Schafer, Yang Guanbing, Bill Hong-Xing Geng & Tony Tin, Athabasca University, Canada S14 Mobile Services for Distance Learners A Tale of Two Institutions: Strategic Approach to Support and DevelopMobile Library Services andResources, Hassan Sheikh & Tony Tin, The Open University, UK and Athabasca University, Canada The Library on the Phone: Assessing the Impact of Mobile Phone LibraryAccess at the University of SouthAfrica Library, Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Executive Director, University of South Africa Library Services, South Africa Providing Virtual Library Service to the Global Online Student, Melody Hainsworth, Principal, The Virtual Librarian Service, Canada 12.15 - 1.30pm - Boxed Lunch at The Gallery, Irving K Barber Learning Centre 2.00 - 3.15pm - Irving K Barber Learning Centre S15 Closing Keynote Chair – Gill Needham, Associate Director, Information Management and Innovation, The Open University, UK Keynote Speaker - Sir John Daniel, Chief Executive Officer at the Commonwealth of Learning:Learning for Development inVancouver, Canada 3.15 - 4:00pm - Closing Remarks and Conference Adjournment, Irving K Barber Learning Centre Steve Schafer, Director of Library Services, Athabasca University, Canada 4.00 - 5.00pm - Refreshments
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