John Iliff, Library Technology Development Consultant, PALINET
11:30am-12:15pm
11:30am-12:15pm
- Alternate titles for this presentation
- Please, not another powerpoint presentation
- getting in touch with your inner-cellular nature
- What is a killer application
- ubiquitous
- life-changing
- such as
- web
- word processing
- Cell phones are everywhere
- wasy to use
- relatively inexepnsive
- worldwide
- bridging the digital devide
- computing power increasing
- Texting
- sending simple text messages from cell to cell
- use phone keys
- 160 character limit
- asynchronous
- more popular overseas, catching on in US
- Demographics
- 500 billion messages per year worldwide
- in U.S. 45% of teens have cell phones 33% are texting
- US teens send 42 billion txt messages last year
- UK – 4 million have repetative stress injuries do to thumbing
- 66% of 250 million cell phones owners in Eurpe use SMS
- US growth un 2004 up by 105%
- Permeating our culture
- Pamela Anderson urges sending a txt message to your loved on on valentines day
- Bible translated into txting lingo
- mobile voter
- “Students Called on SMS Cheating”
- Technology of SMS
- Short Messaging Service
- Part of GSM
- GSM is 70% of the world’s market
- Msgs limited to 160 characters
- msgs are held in a service center until delivered to the phone
- each service has centers to store and forward the message
- Cost roughly $0.10 each (packages are available)
- Short code numbers
- send txt via a 4-6 digit number
- Google = 46645
- send 80010 library finds libraries in that zipcode
- Google send to phone
- Firefox extension
- send portion of web site sent to cell via SMS
- Why has Google done this
- why not?
- queries are short by their nature
- responses equally short
- ready reference by SMS
- Simms Memorial Library
- Southeeastern LA University
- computer population business school
- Hammond, LA
- 15k students
- “Text a Librarian”
- ~50 questions per month
- delivered to ref e-mail account
- response sent back to cell phone
- Uses Altarama Reference by SMS
- Curtin University of Technology
- Perth, Australia
- 31k students, 11k off shore
- 70% of students use SMS
- 200 questions in six months
- concise questions: hours, simple searches, etc.
- responses typically brief
- $1000/year w/ $30 month
- converted to email
- staff traingin minimal
- MessageNet Pty Limited
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Liblet by Portalify
- Circ notices via Endeavor system
- Three other brief examples…
- Approaches to providing SMS service
- Altarama
- MessageNet Pty Ltd
- Library run
- Cellular modem
- software to convert to SMS
- Software
- SMS Gateway
- OzekiSMS
- gnokki for Linux
- Diagram of the process…
- Other SMS services
- iTiva – SMS circ notification system
- ILS Vendors
- LibraryElf
- Other possibilities
- database queries
- updates on library programs
- quotation service
- patrons must opt-in due to cost
- The future
- being replaced by IM
- new standards allowing for greater sophistication
- SMS will continue to grow for the foreseeable future
- It’s not a Killer App
- not life changing
- not omni-present
- in the long tail
- It is worthwhile
- trust the patrons
- meet requirement w/ small effort
- mileage may vary
