[OPLINTECH] Libraries and mobile connectivity

[Stephen Hedges]

Lorcan Dempsey has an extensive article in First Monday entitled
"Always On: Libraries in a World of Permanent Connectivity"
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070

It's primarily targeted at academic libraries, but it looks like
there's lots of stuff in there of interest to public libraries, too.
For example:

"...the perception of quality of reference or of the value of
particular collections, for example, will depend for many people on
the quality of the network services which make them visible, and the
extent to which they can be integrated into personal learning
environments. Increasingly, this requires us to emphasize the network
as an integral design principle in library service development, rather
than thinking of it as an add–on."

Stephen