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On February 17, I attended the keynote session entitled “This is Now: The Mobile Library” as part of the Handheld Librarian Online Conference. The presenter was Joe Murphy who received the Library Journal ‘Movers & Shakers” award in 2009. As a “trend setter,” Murphy believes that librarians need to think mobile about library services. As librarians adapt to the mobile revolution, there will be new expectations and frontiers for us to explore. Murphy stressed the importance of “mobile friendly library spaces.” In addition to creating library spaces for our mobile users, librarians should be gaining the skills and knowledge to offer effective mobile services. As he noted, we need to take steps to “keep the library at the center of the mobile information world.”
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One thing that Murphy said was that we should stop banning cell phones in our libraries. I have noticed in ZSR that the cell our students respect the ‘no cell phone conversations except in stairwells’ rule but we almost need to start making our stairwells more comfortable places as I usually have students pacing outside of 301 all day long talking on their phones 🙂