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Creating a Mobile Library Website

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

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Creating a Mobile Library Website

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  1. Creating a Mobile Library Website Sandra Bandy, Lindsay Blake & Tom Cutshall

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. How we created the site • Research other institution sites – medical and/or academic • Based site design features and/or design ideas we liked from these sites • Choose services and resources • Build the site • Test every aspect of the site • Add additional resources or services as they become available

  5. 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

  6. 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 Updates GHSU Greenblatt Mobile Library

  7. 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

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