[Web4lib] Android app for library catalog

[Nicholas Velkavrh]

For what it's worth, Boopsie helped develop a mobile app for my
campus. Please visit m.oxy.edu on a web-enabled mobile device to check
it out. We have a library catalog portion that works quite well -- it
also has some integration into our ILS from Millennium for holds,
fines, and renewals. I'd be more than happy to talk with anyone about
our experiences thus far.

Best regards,

Nick Velkavrh
Digital Scholarship Specialist
Center for Digital Learning & Research
Occidental College
323.259.2671
nvelkavrh at oxy.edu

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Steven Pryor <pryorsw at slu.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
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