Smartphone Use at a University Health Science Center

Abstract

This article describes the results of a survey of library patrons conducted by librarians and information technology specialists at the Health Science Center Libraries at the University of Florida. The purpose of the survey was to learn if and how library patrons were using smartphones to perform their work-related tasks and how patrons felt the library could support smartphone use at the Health Science Center.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic health sciences libraries
• mobile devices
• PDAs
• smartphones

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the content contributions of Nita Ferree and Katie Summey, and image formatting by Matthew Daley.