On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies
- “Imagine... Libraries are already offering amazing services through the use of the mobile Web. Imagine where we'll be in a year or two as mobile Internet adoption continues to increase and portable devices steadily improve."—LTR 44:5, p. 38
In the report, author and library-technology blogger Ellyssa Kroski outlines the components of the mobile Web — the users, devices, the operating systems, the services, the content — and illuminates the research tracking how users currently engage with information on the World Wide Web via their mobile devices. Kroski also delineates several library mobile initiatives and provides a "how to" chapter for libraries interested in developing a mobile experience for their users.
Stranger Than Fiction? Not Anymore
July 2008
In Smart Libraries Newsletter This MonthGoing Evergreen in Academia
A change in climate is afoot in libraries. Recently, a number of libraries and library consortia have chosen to go the open-source route, and in the July issue of Smart Libraries, Marshall Breeding looks at the most recent library to implement open-source software to power its automation systems and services.
Last month—only about a month after the decision to migrate from the SirsiDynix Unicorn system—the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island became the first academic library to move to the open-source Evergreen library automation system.
“Under normal circumstances, the implementation of a new automation system by a relatively small academic library wouldn't necessarily be a significant news event,” notes Breeding. “But as the first academic library to venture to adopt Evergreen and to do so in a four-week sprint, it warrants some attention.”
Learn more about the Robertson Library's migration to Evergreen—as well as about other libraries' implementations of open-source systems—in “Evergreen Expands into Academia” by Breeding the July issue of Smart Libraries Newsletter.
