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Hannah Gascho Rempel & Laurie M. Bridges, Oregon State University
We launched our mobile site in March 2009.
The mobile homepage featured:
First, let’s review
the facts.
Mobile Phone Use
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Worldwide mobile phone subscriptions:
4,400,000,000
Worldwide number of landlines:
1,300,000,000
* How do I?
* Where is it?
* Directions
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Mobile Catalog Requirements Planning
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Catalog Requirements
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Search by keyword, title, author, call number,
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Course Reserve Search
Branch Filtering
Limit by result set size: options (1, 5,10)
Call numbers mapped to floor location and displayed with record
Availability displayed in search results list
SMS texts title, author, call number and floor location
Email option emails title, author, call number
and floor location
Must work well on both smart phones and feature phones
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Release the mobile catalog, September 2009.
Full-text
Images
Video
Social reviewing
* Enable study room reservations
U.S. penetration rate: 85%
Vendor Comparison Chart—
U.S. teens 12-17 that own a mobile phone: 71%
U.S. undergraduates that own a web-enabled phone: 51%
Undergraduates who plan to purchase a web-enabled phone in
the next 12 months: 12%
Mobile phone users who say, “I could not live without it.” 42%
“The most important technology product no longer sits on your
desk but rather fits in your hand.” New York Times, May 26,
2010
Source: Bridges, L. M., Rempel H. G., & Griggs, K. (2010). Making the
case for a fully mobile library Web site: From floor maps to the catalog.
Reference Services Review, 38 (2), 309-320.
Mobile Catalog Project proposal, June 2009.
Our test: How easy is it to find a book via a keyword search?
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OSU Libraries MobileLib Search Project
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Project: MobileLib
Stage 2: Implementing a mobile search for the Library Catalog
Date: 5/20/09
Prepared by: Kim Griggs, Laurie Bridges, Hannah Rempel
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1. Project Plan
This document contains the system requirements for OSU Libraries MobileLib project. The project is split into three stages,
this document is intended to aid in the development of Stage
2.
Stage 1: An OSU Web site for mobile devices—completed.
Stage 2: An OSUL mobile application for searching our catalog
and other holdings—in progress.
Stage 3: An innovative mobile application—Future
1.2 Scope of Project
Stage 2 will implement a mobile catalog search that allows users to look up an item by keyword, title, author, call number,
ISBN, and course reserves by course number or instructor
name. The mobile search results will be scaled back to fit the
mobile use context and will emphasize item location and item
availability by clearly displaying call numbers, floor location,
and real time availability status. In addition the mobile search
application will provide SMS services that text the call numbers
of an item to a patron and a hold request functionality that will
allow a patron to place an item on hold.
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high def: iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, WebKit Browsers
med def: Blackberry, IE Mobile, HTC
low def: Flip phones, DoCoMo, OpenWare, Netfront
* Add databases as they become available and/or
use Summon mobile for database searching
Worldwide mobile penetration rate: 61%
Countries with a higher penetration rate than the U.S.:
El Salvador, Venezuala, Guatemala, Panama, South Africa,
Russia, Thailand
And in the future...
OSU Libraries
Prepare promo materials, August 2009.
* Announcement on library homepage
* Announcement in Facebook
* Press Release http://bit.ly/mlibpress
Lessons Learned
* Start simple and go with what you know
* Don’t get hung up on technologies or standards
(they are rapidly changing)
* Focus on what makes mobile unique (don’t include
everything)
* Access to library account
* Friend-Finder Tool
* Coffee Line Web Cam *
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Our **amazing** programmer, Kim Griggs, will be releasing
the open source code later this summer. Look here:
http://github.com/griggsk/OSU-Libraries-Mobile-Catalog