Mobile & Libraries
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This article appears in the Match 2010 issue of Smart Libraries Newsletter, available for purchase here . -Dan Freeman One of the most interesting mobile applications demonstrated at the ALA Midwinter Meeting came from outside the ILS vendors. LibaryThing, a company that has found a niche in adding value to existing library catalogs, has created a mobile app that can be used with almost any of the major automation platforms, allowing a broad range of libraries to create a mobile presence at a very low price.
LibraryThing Delivers Mobile Access to Library Catalogs
Planning for a Mobile Website
Mobile, mobile, mobile. It’s all we hear these days. Mobile…it’s the new black. Mobile…you just GOTTA. At my library, mobile web browsers have only accounted for .3% of the total site traffic so far this semester.I’m really excited to launch a side project this morning that I’ve been working on for a while: Mobile Site Generator After filling out a form with page titles and few other bits of info, the generator spits out a fully functional mobile site (tested on iPhones, iTouches, and Android devices) ready for uploading to your server as an HTML file! I’ve been asked a lot of questions about how we made the UNC Libraries’ mobile website .
Mobile Site Generator · Hidden Peanuts
Mobile Web Design – Working Code, Tips, Best Practices « DigInit: digital initiatives
Taking a web site to the small screen comes with a host of considerations: device width, available bandwidth, touch versus click interfaces, browsers with limited functionality, etc.