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A Custom Mobile Catalog: What to do when you don’t like your options Laurie M. Bridges, Oregon State University Libraries Presentation given at ALA Annual 2010: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Catalog Form and Function Interest Group Forum “Mobile Catalog Interfaces”.
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A Custom Mobile Catalog:What to do when you don’t like your options
Laurie M. Bridges, Oregon State University Libraries
Presentation given at ALA Annual 2010: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Catalog Form and Function Interest Group Forum “Mobile Catalog Interfaces”.
Coming Up
The Team The Timeline Requirements Features
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The Team
Formed in December 2008 Three Members
Laurie Bridges – Team Lead Kim Griggs – Computer Programmer Hannah Gascho Rempel – Librarian
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Release Dates
March 2009 – Mobile Site September 2009 – Mobile Catalog
Process
Gathered Information Reviewed Established Requirements Developed List of “Wants” Compared Mobile Catalogs with
Custom Option Submitted Project Proposal Created Custom Catalog Tested Released Promoted
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Gathered Information
Users have “goal-oriented intentions” on mobile phone
Understand audience (university students/staff/faculty) “fast, easy, fun”
Reviewed mobile stats
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Reviewed Our 10Design Recommendations* Hierarchy Links Navigation Footer Information Page titles, navigation links, and URLs Page Content Page Layout Forms Images and Color Screen Size
* Developed based on MWBP and iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. Details available in code4lib article, “library/mobile: Tips on designing and developing mobile web sites”.
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List of “Wants”
Simple and scaled down Search by author, keyword, call #,
ISN, reserves, title Limit results by location (branch) Results feature availability and floor
location Ability to email or text record Display book cover in record
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Reviewed Available Catalogs
But today… AirPAC (Innovative Interfaces) Summon Mobile (Serial Solutions) Library Anywhere (LibraryThing) WorldCat Mobile (OCLC)
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Submitted a Project Proposal
Detailed in Making the Case for a Fully Mobile Catalog: Floor Maps to the Catalog by Bridges, Rempel, and Griggs in most recent Reference Services Review.
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Created Catalog
Who? Kim Griggs, Computer Programmer & Stephen Perona, Student Employee Available on the cloud later this summer
http://github.com/griggsk/OSU-Libraries-Mobile-Catalog
How? Ruby on Ramaze Open_URI Hpricot CSS Selectors & Reg exs ActionMailer – SMS and emails MySQL DB
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Testing
MobileOK tests, http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK/
DOTMobi Desktop browser Mobile browser simulators Local mobile phone store
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Promotion
Press Release bit.ly/mlibpress Local newspaper (student and
community) Link on desktop homepage
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Stats June 2010
Top 5 Pages Computer Availability Catalog Search Hours Ask Us Floor Maps
101 unique visitors a day average 75% iPhone users
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Questions?
Contact: Laurie Bridges,
[email protected] Kim Griggs,
[email protected] Presentation: http://slideshare.net/ilaurieFlickr: Colodio
