Library Web Apps and Mobile Apps

[Ballard, Terry]

There are other options. If you go to http://lawlib.nyls.edu using a mobile device, you will be automatically sent to our Boopsie site - no app required. Usage data gathered from Google Analytics over the last year showed that we had a steady flow of traffic into the web site from Iphones and Androids, so we can only see this as progress.

Terry  

Terry Ballard
Assistant Director of Technical Services for Library Systems
New York Law School, Mendik Library
185 W. Broadway
New York, NY, 10013
Telephone: 212-431-2106
Web: www.terryballard.org
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Leo Robert Klein
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Library Web Apps and Mobile Apps

Well, I can absolutely see the need to make our content 'mobile-friendly'*.  I just don't see how 'mobile-friendly' translates into obliging people to download a site-specific 'app' just to access the content.

That's where I'm wondering what the traffic and usage is.  I mean, if I had it my way, we'd simply send someone a bookmark and call it an 'app'.

LEO

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* Using such 'built-in' tools as HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, etc.

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On 11/14/2011 1:36 PM, Louise Alcorn wrote:
> I would add to Thomas's comment that our integrated library systems
> (ILS) may or may not be providing these mobile (as in phone/mobile
> device) app-based interfaces to our library catalogs, databases and 
> more, so many of us are looking at options to make an "older" ILS or 
> other offerings more mobile-friendly and (perhaps more to the point) 
> more integrated with each other. If we don't, the research (Pew, etc.) 
> shows, we'll lose the under-30 crowd entirely pretty soon. Heck, we'll 
> lose the over-30 crowd, too. Our patrons, esp. busy parents, want to 
> do everything with their phone on their own schedule.
>
> My 2 cents.

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