
Mobile Library Services
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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.
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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).
Content
. "A Student-Library Collaboration to Create CULite: An iPhone App for the Cornell University Library" by Matthew Connolly and Tony Cosgrave, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
. "Launching a Mobile Initiative: Outreach Strategies" by Alexandra W. Gomes, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University, Washington, DC
. "Oregon State University Libraries Go Mobile" by Laurie Bridges, Hannah Gascho Rempel, and Evviva Weinraub, The Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis
. "Making the Library Mobile on a Shoestring Budget" by Helen Bischoff, Michele Ruth, and Ben Rawlins, Georgetown College Library, Kentucky
. "The Orange County Library System: The OCLS Shake It! App" by Cassandra Shivers, Orange County Library System, Orlando, FL
. "The NCSU Libraries' Mobile Scavenger Hunt" by Anne Burke, Adrienne Lai, and Adam Rogers, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh
. "Responsive Web Design for Libraries: Beyond the Myth of the Mobile Web" by Matthew Reidsma, Grand Valley State University Libraries, Allendale, MI
. "Using iPads to Revitalize Traditional Library Tours" by Amanda Binder, Sarah Sagmoen, Natalie Tagge and Nancy Weichert, Brookens Library, University of Illinois, Springfield
. "Going Mobile at Illinois" by Joshua Bishoff, University of Illinois Libraries, Urbana
. "The Gimme Engine: A True Story of Innovation, Creativity and Fun" by Aimee Fifarek and Ann Porter, Scottsdale Public Library, Scottsdale, AZ
. "Building the Montana State University Library Mobile Web App with the jQuery Mobile Framework" by Jason A. Clark, Montana State University Library, Bozeman
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