Megan Fox, Web & Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College gave a wonderful presentation, Building Communities in the Palm of Your Hand. She talked about how libraries can have syncing stations for PDA users and how beaming builds communities. She has hundreds of examples on her web site.
I found the stats she mentioned about cell phone usage in college and university students very interesting — in 2000 30% of students had cell phones while in 2004 the number was 90%. And then there’s the Duke experiment with supplying freshman with iPods. We’ll hear more about that at Internet Librarian 2005 in the fall I believe.
Megan showed so many new mobile technologies that my head was spinning.
She also presented a great guide for finding content and searching on PDAs. Thanks for the wonderful information! I could see lots of CIL attendees appreciated your info too as they were practising beaming and searching with their PDAs!