Superpatron reports on Duke University’s mobile home page for the library:

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2008/12/duke-university-libraries-mobile-edition.html

If you click through to “Available Computers” you get real time status of free/busy computers in their labs.

This is what they write about it on their library blog:

Key points about our pilot:

• Compact display: information optimized for the very small screen space available on handheld devices — every pixel counts.
• Compact file size: patrons often pay a fee for each byte transmitted to their device, and handheld devices often have very slow connection speeds — every byte counts.
• Tightly focused content: the content we provide is closely tied to the tasks people are most likely to undertake on a handheld device — context counts.
• Optimized Navigation: navigation is optimized for handheld devices (e.g., using access-keys for keypad navigation).

I’m very interested in this. Have any TTW readers developed a mobile homepage for their libraries?