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      A theory of mobile library service delivery.

      Saravani, Sarah-Jane; Haddow, Gaby
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       10.1177/0961000615595854
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      Saravani, S.-J., & Haddow, G. (2017). A theory of mobile library service delivery. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 49(2), 131–143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000615595854
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13354
      Abstract
      Research indicates there is widespread acceptance that nomadicity of library users is a phenomenon that will continue to increase; however, mobile learning is a resource that relatively few academic libraries appear to be taking advantage of. This paper presents a model developed during an investigation using a grounded theory approach into factors that may contribute to the delivery of library services to mobile technologies. A sample of 42 professionally qualified library staff from the Australasian vocational education and training (VET) sector was investigated to determine how confident and capable library staff believed they were to respond to technology advancement challenges and the training and support required for that response. The resulting theoretical model explains the impact of mobile technologies on library services and highlights the complex factors contributing to mobile technology acceptance at both an organisational and individual level. The presence of a series of catalysing impacts forms a central core and their management can enable an organisation to move from a position of uncertainty to one where the consequences of mobile technologies have been normalised.
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      2017
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      Journal Article
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      © The Authors 2015. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
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