Via the Superpatron:
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2008/05/mobile-versions.html
If your library catalog has a special version optimized for small computer screens as seen on mobile phones or specially for the iPhone, I’m interested in a pointer to it.
So far I’ve found these:
- American University Libraries
- Ball State University Library
- Boston University Medical Center Mobile Library
- Cal Poly Pomona University Library
- Hanover College, Duggan Library
- Harvard College Library
- University of Illinois Library
- LibraryThing
- New York University Libraries
- North Carolina State University Library
- University of Richmond Library
- St. John’s University, College of St. Benedict
- University of Virgina Library
but where there’s this many there’s bound to be more.
thanks for this.
at some point the “no cell phones in the library” sign needs to be replaced with the “put your library in the cell phone”. or something like that.
Our library web site (Luria Library) has Movable Type as the back end and it appears very clean and usable on an iPhone. It still functions well on a small screen though it doesn’t meet your criteria for “special version” – maybe I’ll have to create a special version too, but I think as the technology (such as iPhone) improves, there will be no need for these special versions.
What do you think?
The Kankakee Public Library has a special mobile site (www.lions-online.org/mobile). I developed it when I bought my first PDA about 4 years ago. It works great on my blackberry and the library catalog that is maintained by our regional library system isn’t pretty but is quite functional. The hardest thing is remembering to keep the mobile site updated with the main site.
I am developing a mobile website called http:StudentsUnion.mobi and the hardest task if finding if the universities have a mobile site. I will add m., wap and other mobile extentions but i am look for true “.mobi” university websites.
OK, I’ve modified the existing and created a small and simple mobile version:
Santa Barbara City College Luria Library
Thanks for the modification.
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Washington DC Public Library has a true iP_hone app – DCPL – which has been available on the App store since 12/2008. Works on their Unicorn/Symphony ILS. They are finishing up a Blackberry version now.
Supports searches, content (jackets, excerpts, reviews), locations hours and locations (geocoded too), as well as patron holds.
Link tot he app:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301077850&mt=8
Link to the annoucement:
http://www.walkingpaper.org/1100
We launched a mobile version of the San Diego State University library website a few months ago. We decided to make it platform independent to reach the non-iphone crowd, but included Safari metatags so that it displays well on the iphone.
http://infomobile.sdsu.edu/
The ghent university library (belgium) has launched a mobile version of their portal. Still in a development fase but already online and working !
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