Mobilizing for Mobile: The Seattle Public Library
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Presentation at the LITA National Forum 2011, St. Louis, MO.
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Mobilizing for Mobile: The Seattle Public Library
- 1. Mobilizing for Mobile Jim Loter Director of Information Technology jim@spl.org | @jloter LITA National Forum, St. Louis, MO. October 2011
- 2. Obligatory Statistics Slide 27 locations Central Library (363,000 ft2) 26 neighborhood libraries 2010 Stats Circulation of 12,000,000 7,000,000 patron visits 7,200,000 web site visits $50M budget Photo: KOMO News http://www.komonews.com
- 3. Mobile Services (Then) Image: The Seattle Public Library collection
- 4. Mobile Services (Now) Catalog/search Library information Digital downloads Notifications Library tours Services in the stacks Photo: WebJunction http://blog.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/category/seattle/
- 7. Download Digital Books & Media
- 8. Ask a Librarian (IM, text, call)
- 14. SPL Mobile App Queries
- 15. Digital Book Downloads Integrated OverDrive eBooks and eAudioBooks into SPL Mobile in July 2011 75,000 titles via OverDrive 17,180 available on 9/30/2011 3,500 eBook downloads via SPL Mobile in August 2011
- 17. Digital Downloads 2011 423,000 ? 312,000 111,000
- 18. Notifications Library Elf (libraryelf.com) Due dates and holds pickup via SMS, email Manage multiple library accounts Patrons can use without subscription ($12/yr) SPL subscribed in August 2011 – free to patrons (> 1000) Considering ShoutBomb (shoutbomb.com) Notifications plus SMS-based renewals, catalog queries, ask-a-librarian
- 19. QR Codes Original Image Copyright © Allie Brosh
- 20. QR Codes Very modest roll out so far Used on “Library Closed” signs during week-long furlough Recently piloted on book displays Planning to use on door signs, link to Ask-a-Librarian service
- 21. Digital PicksQR Coding physical books; link to download eBooks
- 22. QR Code Scan Stats Data collected over 2 week period
- 23. Tours Downloadable MP3 audio tours Dial-a-tour (piloting)
- 24. Mobile Librarians The “get out from behind the desk” campaign Into the stacks Into the community Plan: provide tablets to librarians; develop tablet-enabled ILS functions Barcode lookup/PIN reset Patron account management Circulation stats
Editor's Notes
- For a century, this was what mobile services meant to libraries. (Talk about our integration of mobile services into Central)
- I’ll note that I’ve already seen a few presentations here in St. Louis about mobile-related services that are far more innovative and interesting that what we’ve been doing in Seattle. I have to remind myself to keep in mind differences in audience and culture. We do have a lot of patrons with smartphones, but we don’t have quite the saturation of, say, a college campus. Also, within the postmodern glass and steel walls of our building there is a very traditional library culture. So it’s been a challenge to get and keep people thinking about mobility and to incorporate mobile services into library programs and services.
- We launched the SPL Mobile app in 2010 after determining that we would not invest in making a mobile version of our traditional web site. We focused on mobilizing the highest trafficked parts of the site, which included – obviously – the catalog, our Ask a Librarian services, evens calendar, and library locations.
- Overall, digital downloading continues to rise. This year, August and September are hard months for us to project because of a number of factors. First, the library was closed for a week at the end of August so we typically see a spike of activity preceding that. The impact of the OverDrive integration into SPL Mobile isn’t yet known – will it cause a permanent increase or just fork existing patterns? And, of course, the recent availability of Kindle-formatted eBooks is likely to send the curve even higher.
- Presentation yesterday from University of Utah