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Library in Your Pocket Delivery of Instruction Service Through Library Mobile Apps: A World in Your Pocket

Library in Your Pocket Delivery of Instruction Service Through Library Mobile Apps: A World in Your Pocket

Kutty Kumar
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522528029|ISBN10: 1522528024|EISBN13: 9781522528036
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2802-9.ch009
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Kumar, Kutty. "Library in Your Pocket Delivery of Instruction Service Through Library Mobile Apps: A World in Your Pocket." Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age, edited by Swati Bhattacharyya and K Rama Patnaik, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 228-249. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2802-9.ch009

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Kumar, K. (2018). Library in Your Pocket Delivery of Instruction Service Through Library Mobile Apps: A World in Your Pocket. In S. Bhattacharyya & K. Patnaik (Eds.), Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age (pp. 228-249). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2802-9.ch009

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Kumar, Kutty. "Library in Your Pocket Delivery of Instruction Service Through Library Mobile Apps: A World in Your Pocket." In Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age, edited by Swati Bhattacharyya and K Rama Patnaik, 228-249. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2802-9.ch009

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Abstract

Mobile devices such as smart phones, iPads and tablet computers are swiftly flourishing in the world and changing the way information is organized, acknowledged and circulated. Accordingly, the libraries have to adopt mobile services which capitalize on and adapt to these momentous technological changes. The traditional library services are now poignant to mobile library information services. Mobile applications have made communication and information access very convenient and timely to users. Adapting instruction delivery services through mobile application perceptive the traditional relationships between libraries and their users and introduces new confronts to reader privacy. The mobile applications are becoming an essential part of everyday life and are changing the way one connects and interacts with the world. The focus of this paper is on available mobile apps concerning to reading, productivity and organization at work, giving presentation, white board teaching and demonstration. This paper highlights the delivery of instruction services through library mobile apps.

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