Creating a Mobile Library Website
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Creating a Mobile Library Website
Sandra Bandy, Lindsay Blake &
Tom Cutshall
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Greenblatt Library at Georgia Health Sciences University• 5 Colleges: Nursing, Medical, Dental, Allied
Health, Graduate• 2 Hospitals: Georgia Health Sciences Medical
Center and Children’s Medical Center• Working with students, faculty,
residents, clinicians & researchers
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Why Create a site?• Increase in use of Mobile
Technologies• Advent of the iPhone in 2007,
Android in 2009• Rise of the ‘apps’• GHSU Mobile Application Suite• Application development
versus site development
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How we created the site1. Research other institution sites –
medical and/or academic2. Based site design features and/or
design ideas we liked from these sites3. Choose services and resources4. Build the site5. Test every aspect of the site6. Add additional resources or
services as they become available
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Design and Technical Issues• Mobile websites ≠ full-size websites in miniature• Don’t make users read tiny print • Minimize user typing • Mobile users on the go/just want quick answer• Don’t reinvent the wheel--borrow coding• Test your mobile site: simulators, devices, users• Let user chose between mobile and full size site
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Where we are now• Additional sites have been tested and added– STAT!Ref & DailyMed
• Some special exceptions– Access Medicine– UpToDate– Web of Knowledge?
• Journals Category• Constant Feedback
and UpdatesGHSU Greenblatt Mobile Library
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Cutshall, T.C., Bandy, S.L., Blake, L. Creating a Mobile Library Website. Computers in Libraries. 31(7) 22-48.
EDUCAUSE free webinar: “Library in Your Pocket: Strategies and Techniques for Developing Successful
Mobile Services”http://www.educause.edu/Resources/LibraryinYourPocketStrategiesa/195003