Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets

Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets

Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang

Tablet computer ownership on university campuses has tripled in the past year, according to a Pearson Foundation survey in March 2012. At the threshold of the Post-PC era, as students’ expectations change, reference and instruction librarians are responding with new services. In this issue of Library Technology Reports Virginia Tech librarians Miller, Meir, and Moorfield-Lang offer a collection of first-hand accounts of academic library projects using tablets.