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Title Rethinking reference and instruction with tablets / Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, and Heather Moorefield-Lang, editors
Published Chicago, IL : ALATechSource, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Library technology reports ; v. 48, no. 8
Library technology reports ; v. 48, no. 8.
Contents Introduction / Rebecca K. Miller, Heather Moorefield-Lang, and Carolyn Meier -- iPads to enhance user engagement during reference interactions / Michelle M. Maloney and Veronica A. Wells -- Smarter together / Linda Salem, Brittany Cronin, and Laurel Bliss -- Medical librarian rounding with an iPad / Cleo Pappas -- Roving librarian at a mid-sized, UK-based university / Alison Sharman and Andrew Walsh -- Tablets as powerful tools for university research / Robin Canuel, Chad Crichton, and Maria Savova -- Curricular use of the iPad 2 by a first-year undergraduate learning community / Jim Hahn and Hilary Bussell -- The fine art (and architecture) of mobilizing student learning / Patrick Tomlin -- iTeaching and learning / Willie Miller
Summary "[This publication] describes how the explosion of tablet computing has opened up new opportunities for library reference and instruction. The editors have identified several library projects that deploy tablets for use by staff, faculty, and students for both reference service and instruction. This issue describes the projects in detail, with goals and results"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Tablet computers -- Library resources
iPad (Computer) -- Library resources
Pocket computers -- Library resources
Reference services (Libraries) -- Information technology
Library orientation -- Technological innovations
Multimedia systems -- Library resources
Multimedia library services.
Library users -- Effect of technological innovations on
Information retrieval.
Libraries and students.
Academic libraries -- Reference services.
Mobile computing.
Wireless Internet.
Libraries and the Internet.
Information Storage and Retrieval
information retrieval.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Academic libraries -- Reference services
Information retrieval
Libraries and students
Libraries and the Internet
Library orientation -- Technological innovations
Library users -- Effect of technological innovations on
Mobile computing
Multimedia library services
Reference services (Libraries) -- Information technology
Wireless Internet
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Rebecca K., editor.
Moorefield-Lang, Heather, editor.
Meier, Carolyn, editor.
ISBN 9780838994450
0838994458
9780838994467
0838994466