Mobile Library Services: Best Practices

Charles Harmon, Michael Messina

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Feb 13, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 153 pages

Just as Andrew Carnegie’s support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple’s launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services. Libraries, like every other kind of organization, must now make their services—not just their catalogs—available on an array of mobile devices.

Mobile Library Servicesprovides 11 proven ways to reach out to mobile users and increase your library’s relevance to their day-to-day lives. Librarians detail how they created mobile apps to how they went mobile on a shoestring budget. Written by public, academic, and special librarians, these 11 best practices offer models for libraries of every type and size.

Contents

• An iPhone App for the Cornell University Library: 1
• Outreach Strategies: 15
• 3 Oregon State University Libraries Go Mobile: 31
• 4 Making the Library Mobile on a Shoestring Budget: 43
• 5 The Orange County Library System Shake It App: 55
• A Case Study: 65
• Beyond the Mobile Web: 79
• 8 Using iPads to Revitalize Traditional Library Tours: 95
• A Case Study: 107
• 10 Building the Montana State University Library Mobile Web App with the jQuery Mobile Framework: 123
• A True Story of Innovation Creativity and Fun: 137
• Index: 149
• About the Editors and Contributors: 151

About the author

Charles Harmon is an Executive Editor for the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. His background includes work in special, public, and school libraries. Michael Messina is a reference librarian at the State University of New York's Maritime College. He has also worked as a researcher at The Brooklyn Academy of Music Archives. The former publisher of Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Limelight Editions, he is a coeditor of Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays (Northwestern University Press).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mobile Library Services: Best Practices; Best Practices in Library Services
• Editors: Charles Harmon, Michael Messina
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2013
• ISBN: 0810887525, 9780810887527
• Length: 153 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Administration & Management; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Digital & Online Resources; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General; Technology & Engineering / Mobile & Wireless Communications