One of the major points I will be taking away from this conference is the idea that we really need to be watching mobile trends closely. Very closely.
To summarize some of the market statistics:
75 % of all US adults have cell phones
90% of college students have them
95% of US mobile phones support text messaging
62 % of subscribers use text messaging regularly
text messaging increased 95% over last year
For me, it’s so exciting to think about the possibilities when it comes to the mobile Web. But it means that we really need to think long and hard about how libraries fit in to the wireless world. It’s something I will be pondering…
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April 13th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I’m curious how you see libraries fitting into a wireless world. Things are changing to where the current generation isn’t going to be use to going somewhere for information. I doubt that my daughter is going to think of driving to a video store when she wants to watch a movie in 20 years. I doubt she is going to go to a book store when she wants to buy a book to read.
I think one of the ways that libraries can secure a place in the future is by becoming more of a hub for social interaction. If people no longer run into each other at the video store, book store and other places I think there will be more of a need to interact with other people and it seems like this might be an area the library can fill a need.
In my small town the bulk of the people in the library at any given time are there using the computers.
Mark