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<p class="MsoNormal">If you haven’t had a chance to review the latest issue of Library Technology Reports titled, “Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets,” it’s now available electronically via Gale (as part of the statewide database licensing program):
go to <b><span style="color:black">Academic OneFile</span></b><span style="color:black">, click on "<b>Publication Search</b>" in the
<b>orange bar</b>, enter: Library Technology Reports, click on the search result “Library Technology Reports” and select
<b>November 1, 2012, Vol.48, Issue 8</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tablet computer ownership on university campuses has tripled in the past year, according to a Pearson Foundation survey in March 2012. At the threshold of the Post-PC era, as students’ expectations change, reference and instruction librarians
are responding with new services. In this issue of <i>Library Technology Reports</i> Virginia Tech librarians Miller, Meir, and Moorfield-Lang offer a collection of first-hand accounts of academic library projects using tablets. Among the projects detailed: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Subject matter librarians roving campus to increase access and usage of online resources<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Librarians partnering with faculty of eight academic departments to use tablets in instruction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Industrial design students using library tablets in competitions and design lab work<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Workshops that put mobile learning into information literacy instruction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Tablets as a curriculum component in a first-year undergraduate learning community <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Cross-departmental library collaboration in planning new services <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More information available here: <a href="http://www.alatechsource.org/taxonomy/term/106/rethinking-reference-and-instruction-with-tablets">
http://www.alatechsource.org/taxonomy/term/106/rethinking-reference-and-instruction-with-tablets</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Darci<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Darci Hanning * Technology Development Consultant * Library Development Services<br>
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<br>
503-378-2527 <a href="mailto:darci.hanning@state.or.us" title="blocked::mailto:darci.hanning@state.or.us">
<span style="color:blue">darci.hanning@state.or.us</span></a> <br>
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