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A Gartner press release has been issued for their October report “Dataquest Insight: The Top Ten Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012.”  We don’t have access to the full Gartner report, so this press release gives us a bit more information.

Observing this report, the Gartner Hype Cycles for consumer mobile applications and maybe even simply the increased use of mobile devices in the Newman library, we can safely assume will be responding to this trend in our profession. The top ten applications are listed below.

1. Money Transfer
2. Location-Based Services
3. Mobile Search
4. Mobile Browsing
5. Mobile Health Monitoring
6. Mobile Payment
7. Near Field Communication Services
8. Mobile Advertising
9. Mobile Instant Messaging
10. Mobile Music

Also, I attended the Columbia University Libraries Assessment Forum thursday where Michael Lascarides of NYPL spoke about user experiences in his presentation “Uncovering Stories.”  He noted in one of his slides, in the past 18 months, mobile users accessing the NYPL website increased sevenfold.