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M232

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Many different kinds of researches, teaching and learning activities are taking place in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Traditional classroom-based teaching cannot fully cope with the rapid increasing number of staff and students not to mention their expectations. On the other hand, learning activities via WebCT and Moodle, emails, online forums and other means of Internet applications are widely adopted medium over the years but now, with the mobile technology is becoming more popular, it is expected that more and more teaching and learning activities will be shifted to mobile learning (m-learning) to solve these problems.

This paper will report the findings from a mobile library service survey jointly conducted by four academic libraries in Hong Kong and Singapore held in October 2011. The objective of this survey is to find out the potential and practical use of mobile library services among our new generation users. Three key issues will be discussed in this paper: the possession rate of mobile devices; the adoption of library services they are using or will use on their mobile devices; and the potential areas for the Library to fill in the gap between their expectations and the services provided. A word of advice will be noted for further development of mobile services by a library.

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Jun 5th, 12:00 AM

Mobile Me, Mobile Library Services: CUHK's Perspectives

Many different kinds of researches, teaching and learning activities are taking place in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Traditional classroom-based teaching cannot fully cope with the rapid increasing number of staff and students not to mention their expectations. On the other hand, learning activities via WebCT and Moodle, emails, online forums and other means of Internet applications are widely adopted medium over the years but now, with the mobile technology is becoming more popular, it is expected that more and more teaching and learning activities will be shifted to mobile learning (m-learning) to solve these problems.

This paper will report the findings from a mobile library service survey jointly conducted by four academic libraries in Hong Kong and Singapore held in October 2011. The objective of this survey is to find out the potential and practical use of mobile library services among our new generation users. Three key issues will be discussed in this paper: the possession rate of mobile devices; the adoption of library services they are using or will use on their mobile devices; and the potential areas for the Library to fill in the gap between their expectations and the services provided. A word of advice will be noted for further development of mobile services by a library.