mobile

Gaylord Sierra Mobile Shelving

Posted: Apr. 20, 2010.

Gaylord introduces Sierra Mobile Shelving. Mobile shelving offers the flexibility to easily reconfigure a library as needed. Sierra mobile shelving rolls with ease, even when fully loaded. It includes bottom display shelves allowing for easy viewing and is availabe in six wood finishes.

 

 

 


Microsoft Kin

Microsoft today announced a new mobile phone platform, Kin, designed around capturing and sharing content. It integrates the Microsoft Zune experience, along with photo and video capture into two new phones, the Kin One and Kin Two. Video and more, after the break.


Mobile accessible library websites

Posted: Apr. 12, 2010.

Question: We’d like to make our website available to patrons that have “smartphones”.  Do you have any resources to help us?


Mobile Site Generator

Chad Haefele, Reference Librarian for Emerging Technologies at Davis Library at UNC-Chapel Hill has released a great tool for mobilizing your website: The Mobile Site Generator. From his blog, Hidden Peanuts:

…while I’ve seen a lot of talk about mobile sites for libraries, I don’t see nearly as many actually implementing them. I think a lot of librarians are intimidated. But IUI’s code is actually so simple that I was able to automate its creation! The Mobile Site Generator will hopefully help people over the first hurdle: it creates a framework for a mobile site that you can then tweak & customize to you heart’s content.

Chad’s responsible for UNC library’s awesome mobile site, so he knows a thing or two about creating a mobile site. If you’ve been considering finding a way to mobilize your site, you could do a lot worse than take a half hour and give this a try.


Doing ALA the Boopsie Way

Posted: Jan. 14, 2010.
Screenshot of Midwinter 2010 app from Boopsie

I’m probably the last ALA conference/meeting-goer to realize this, but the Boopsie app is awesome. I haven’t even left for Boston yet, but this app is already changing how I’ll do the meeting. It’s a simple interface offering a meeting schedule, upcoming sessions, a listing of exhibitors (including yours truly, #1402), Boston restaurants, Boston hotels, and an #alamw10 twitter stream. It almost replaces the Meeting Guide—my #totebag just got a little bit lighter.