Attitude of the Rudjer Boškovic Institute’s scientists to the small screen mobile devices library services

Pažur, Ivana (2014) Attitude of the Rudjer Boškovic Institute’s scientists to the small screen mobile devices library services. Library hi tech, 32 (4). pp. 628-644. ISSN 0737-8831

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Abstract

The survey found that the largest number of respondents own smartphone/tablet/phablet. The results show that small screen devices are, to some extent, used for educational, academic and informational purposes (reading of e-books and e-journals, education, data checking, internet searching and searching of handy information), but non-academic purposes still predominate (texting, reading e-mails, phone calls, taking pictures). Overall 64 percent of the respondents has expressed need for small screen mobile devices customized library resources/services, but there are 30 percent of undecided respondents. Croatian Scientific Bibliography, e- journals database (EZB), online databases, contact information and lecture halls reservations, has been resources/services requested by respondents to be available in a mobile friendly mode.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	academic library; handheld mobile devices; mobile friendly library services/resources; small screen mobile devices; smartphone,
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Library Science
Divisions:	Centre for scientific information
Depositing User:	Ivana Pažur
Date Deposited:	24 May 2015 16:08
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/1965
DOI:	10.1108/LHT-03-2014-0025

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