Comments on: Mobile Versions of Library Web Sites

By: Is Your Web Site Phoning It In? « Current Projects

Is Your Web Site Phoning It In? « Current Projects — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:05:10 +0000

[...] it’s a topic that’s not going to go away. That means we have to build for the future or, as one person commented in a blog post, “the ‘no cell phones in the library’ sign needs to be replaced with [one that says] ‘put [...]

By: Is Your Web Site Phoning It In? « Current Projects

Is Your Web Site Phoning It In? « Current Projects — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:24:42 +0000

By: boekentoren

boekentoren — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:21:00 +0000

The ghent university library (belgium) has launched a mobile version of their portal. Still in a development fase but already online and working !

By: Keven Jeffery

Keven Jeffery — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:07:04 +0000

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/

By: William McClendon

William McClendon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:02:12 +0000

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

By: Mobile Websites « Wilson Library Tech Team

Mobile Websites « Wilson Library Tech Team — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:17:31 +0000

[...] about mobile websites today. Not that we don’t have a billion other things to worry about. Found this blog entry with some examples. Something to keep on the back burner since we are getting more and more users via mobile devices [...]

By: cal tech

cal tech — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:13:28 +0000

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By: Kenley Neufeld

Kenley Neufeld — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:15:27 +0000

OK, I've modified the existing and created a small and simple mobile version: Santa Barbara City College Luria Library Thanks for the modification.

By: Nigel Ankin

Nigel Ankin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:35:12 +0000

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.

By: Steve Bertrand

Steve Bertrand — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:57:41 +0000

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.

By: Kenley Neufeld

Kenley Neufeld — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:46:51 +0000

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?

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:37:32 +0000

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.