creating a mobile library website
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Creating a Mobile Library Website. Sandra Bandy, Lindsay Blake & Tom Cutshall. 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Creating a Mobile Library Website
Sandra Bandy, Lindsay Blake &
Tom Cutshall
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
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
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
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
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