[Web4lib] Android app for library catalog

[Steven Pryor]

Hi Heather,

I've been thinking about this lately (after recently getting a Droid 
myself), so I searched the Market and found the WorldCat and the Seattle 
Public Library apps.  Turns out they were both done by a company called 
Boopsie ( http://www.boopsie.com/home/index.html ) -- kind of a silly 
name but their catalog search tool actually works pretty niftily.  And 
it works across almost all phones.  So I'm looking at them as well as 
considering some in-house development to take advantage of more specific 
advanced features incorporating custom mapping/building navigation, 
barcode/QRcode scanning, etc.  All still in early brainstorming/planning 
stages at this point, though.

Steven Pryor
Technology Manager
Saint Louis University Libraries

On 4/13/2010 11:28 AM, Heather J Klish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone created, or is anyone working on, an Android app for 
> searching their library's catalog?
>
> Thanks,
> Heather
>