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In the summer of 2010, the California Digital Library (CDL) undertook a mobile device user research project to understand how the proliferation of mobile devices with internet access amongst the general public and the explosion of mobile tools and products in higher education affected CDL constituents and services. CDL wanted to understand if they would need to support users in a mobile capacity. In order to answer these objectives, findings from online surveys as well as in-person interviews were analyzed. General findings revealed that while mobile devices played a large role in constituents' personal lives, it was not a device that they turned to when taking part in their academic work. This conclusion lead CDL to develop a mobile strategy that involved building a mobile tracking and evaluation infrastructure to ensure continued assessment and monitoring of mobile usage and trends among their users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the summer of 2010, the California Digital Library (CDL) undertook a mobile device user research project to understand how the proliferation of mobile devices with internet access amongst the general public and the explosion of mobile tools and products in higher education affected CDL constituents and services. CDL wanted to understand if they would need to support users in a mobile capacity. In order to answer these objectives, findings from online surveys as well as in-person interviews were analyzed. General findings revealed that while mobile devices played a large role in constituents' personal lives, it was not a device that they turned to when taking part in their academic work. This conclusion lead CDL to develop a mobile strategy that involved building a mobile tracking and evaluation infrastructure to ensure continued assessment and monitoring of mobile usage and trends among their users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As is true at many colleges and universities, the Otis College of Art and Design faculty and staff are actively exploring Web 2.0 technologies, resulting in an explosion of new digital content-learning objects, video demonstrations, interviews, audio podcasts, as well as portfolios, blogs, and wikis. Although the Otis Library owns digital asset management software, it has been a challenge to routinely archive this digital content. A range of issues is explored in this case study of how one library is confronting its changing role in relation to the educational activities of the College. Questions are also raised about the role that librarians play in archiving born-digital content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides information on the Internet Librarian Monterey Conference held in California from November 15 to 17, 2004. The eighth conference was organized along lines very similar to the 2003 event, with the program arranged in tracks covering such topics as e-resources and digital libraries, search engines, content management and information discovery and Search. The 800 or so attendees represented a wide range of skills and came from various different types of library, with a heavy representation from e-resources librarians and technical information specialists from the corporate library world. A popular issue discussed at the conference was the impact that Google Scholar might have on the database business.