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What The Text Is Happening? Texting, Mobile Communications and the Academic Library. MACRL Webinar – May 17, 2010 . Mobile Students. Mobile Libraries. Commercial Text Reference. Library Text Reference and Applications. Maui Community College. Text Ur Lib? Research Study.
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What The Text Is Happening?Texting, Mobile Communications and the Academic Library MACRL Webinar – May 17, 2010
Library Text Reference and Applications Maui Community College
Text Ur Lib? Research Study • Survey Monkey convenience sample • 16 dimensional questions / 5 demographic • Cell phone ownership/type/text usage • Awareness /Usage of other SMS services • Question asking behavior at Criss • Preferences in reference
General Findings 27-40 19-21
Thank you Audrey DeFrank Acting Dean of Libraries University of Nebraska at Omaha adefrank@unomaha.edu Linda Parker Social Sciences Reference Librarian Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library University of Nebraska at Omaha lparker@unomaha.edu For a copy of this presentation: http://library.unomaha.edu To read conference proceeding paper on this project: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/46/0c/6b.pdf