Handheld/Mobile
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Mobile-friendly features via regular websites
- User's Lib post Library OPACs & mobile-friendly features: most common is ability to text a call-number to your phone. The new VuFind powered Mirlyn also includes this feature.
Mobile Library Web Interfaces
There are a variety of techniques for creating mobile web content. Some institutions just offer a text-only view of their regular site, some create a secondary interface designed specifically for mobile devices, often with separate style sheets for different devices. The most successful mobile interfaces don't try to offer full functionality but provide access to the essential bits that users are more likely to need via a mobile device
Multipurpose
- NYPL: very nice all-in-one mobile access to catalog, website, and digital collections.
- Yale Medical Library: Part website, part portal. Links to standard info about hours & contact and also provides access to databases/resources (highlighting those that have mobile interfaces) and and searches catalog, pubmed, e-journals, and databases and presents results in an easily read mobile interface.
Websites
Catalogs/Digital Collections
- OCLC Worldcat
- Google book search
Mobile Applications
Applications designed for a specific device.
- DCPL's iPhone app: will let you search for items, show location, place a hold, and find library hours etc.
- Duke Mobile
Mobile Reference Services
Mobile Marketing/Event Broadcasting
ebooks
ebook devices & apps
iphone
Often touted as having potential for being the most popular ebook reading device due to the fact that it's a multi-functional device.
- Stanza app:
- Amazon's Kindle app
- eReader:
Kindle
Sony Reader
Stats and mobile related research
- 2009 Horizon Report: lists mobile technology as one of the technologies that will become much more integrated into learning environments within the next year.
