{"id":2167,"date":"2009-06-23T03:08:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T03:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2009-06-23T03:08:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T03:08:38","slug":"left-to-my-own-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/left-to-my-own-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Left to my own devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short new report <em><a href=\"http:\/\/arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk\/docs\/M-Libraries_report.pdf\">M-Libraries: information use on the move<\/a><\/em> (PDF link, 1.2Mb) on mobile-phone use and university libraries. It places a question-mark over the popular idea that there&#8217;s a tech-savvy &#8216;Twitter generation&#8217; of undergraduates out there, clamouring for mobile access to the latest edition of <em>Journal of Proctology<\/em> as they skateboard down the corridors.<\/p>\n<p>Library users at the University of Cambridge and the Open University, both in the UK, were surveyed via a short online survey (a total of 2306 respondents). Despite it being an online survey at two very strong universities &mdash; and therefore presumably attracting more tech-savvy students than otherwise &mdash; there are some discouraging results for the academic use of mobile devices.  <\/p>\n<p>The number of student who say they <strong>&#8220;never read an e-book&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;never read a journal article&#8221;<\/strong> on their mobile are very high (between 86%-94%).  From this survey the report concludes that, even if funding permitted, it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;not worth libraries putting development resource into delivering content such as eBooks and ejournals to mobile devices at present.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short new report M-Libraries: information use on the move (PDF link, 1.2Mb) on mobile-phone use and university libraries. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/left-to-my-own-devices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-and-think-tank-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}