title: Mobile Tech and the Librarian: The iTest iPad Project.
abstract: A 2012 project provided forty-eight health sciences librarians from primarily hospital and academic health sciences libraries with an Apple iPad2 along with training and support on its use. Project objectives were to determine how participants would adopt the iPad into their daily operations and what form of leadership role they would play while participating in the project. By project's end eighty-nine percent indicated they would continue using the iPad primarily as a productivity tool and to provide point of need services. Project data indicated that librarians assumed a leadership role promoting the use of mobile technology and the applications available.
authors.affiliation: National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region, at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. ( chamasu@RML4.utah.edu ).
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hamasu
authors.affiliation: National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region, at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bramble
keywords: Apple iOS; Hospital librarians; National Network of Libraries of Medicine; academic health sciences librarians; iPad; leadership roles; mobile computing; tablet computers; technology adoption