[Web4lib] Android app for library catalog

[Nicholas Velkavrh]

Sounds like Boopsie. They did apps for both Midwinter Boston and ALA
in Chicago. They have a few apps for other non-library conferences as
well.

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

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
> This might have been the company that made a mobile conference agenda tool
> that I once saw. It might have been ALA.
>
> Brian Gray
> mindspiral at gmail.com
> bcg8 at case.edu
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM, 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
>>
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