Karen,

I had a similar thought. How hard would it be, even as an experiment, to
associate geolocation to local records? Therefore the records of
institutions (I'm speaking of physical resources primarily) would be
relevant to a person's query based upon their location, which of course
would play out more fully for mobile users than desktop contexts.

Thoughts?

-- 
Tod Robbins
iSchool GSA Crew
MLIS Candidate 2012
University of Washington