The article I read was Apps for academic success: Developing digital literacy and

awareness to increase usage. Robin Canuel, Emily MacKenzie, Andrew Senior and Nazi Torabi

were the authors, and it was published in 2017. I found it in the EBSCO Management Collection,

after searching ‘library, apps’ and then limiting my search to peer-reviewed articles, full text

plus, and also Subject: mobile apps.

The article opens up talking about how mobile apps are becoming more and more

prevalent as a method of accessing information and accomplishing tasks. It mentions specific

studies that found that academic libraries offering mobile apps actually got more engagement out

of students than ones that didn’t.

It goes on to mention the importance of marketing but also how, while libraries know the

importance of it, they don’t always follow through. But it also noted that one particular librarian

had some success with a game-based, personalized approach to marketing that focused on

teaching some basics.

Another university library formed a committee to carefully study the needs of the various

demographics at the school and created different workshops for the different groups, focused on

highlighting what would be most useful for each individual group.

Overall the article focused on how mobile app usage usually enhances engagement with

the library. As well as different libraries attempts to promote mobile app usage and what was

learned from each attempt.

And honestly? My library is not doing hardly anything on this topic. It may be because I

haven’t looked that hard but I glanced over the current events for this paper. COVID could have
impacted it, but I’ve seen no promotion of mobile apps whatsoever, or programs specializing in

them.

I have seen posters and flyers up for things like Hoopla, but I can access that on my

computer easily, I’m not actually sure it’s a mobile app. It’s more of an online services in general

rather than any specific app.

Canuel, R., MacKenzie, E., Senior, A., & Torabi, N. (2017). Apps for academic success:
Developing digital literacyand awareness to increase usage. Retrieved October 14, 2020,
from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?
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