Presentation for 2012 Handheld Librarian Conference

1. Presented by:
Kyle Potter, Michele
Ruth, Helen Bischoff & Ben
Rawlins
Georgetown College

2. Overview
• Why mobile matters
• How we made a lot with a little
• The evolution of reference services
• Tools and projects using free and open source
software
© Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half
[http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/]

3. Why Mobile Matters
• Devices strikingly common:
– 35% of Americans own a smartphone
– 23% of all Americans use one to go online “on a typical
day”
“35% of American Adults Own a Smartphone,”
Pew Internet and American Life Project, July 2011
[http://bit.ly/nT2Ly6]
• Dramatic increase in eReader and tablet ownership
– 19% own tablet computers
– 19% own e-readers
“Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period, ”
Pew Internet and American Life Project, January 2012
1 [http://bit.ly/zh0Jxy]

4. Georgetown College Goes Mobile
• Georgetown College has 2100 campus members.
• Our network has 870 mobile devices registered, and
many patrons use their provider’s data plan exclusively
Operating System Number of Registered Clients on WiFi
Apple iPhone 486
Apple iPod 198
Apple iPad 124
Android 62
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5. Shoestring Budget
Yes, you can!
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6. You Can Too…
…..assuming you already have someone on staff to
initiate and implement mobile products.
Otherwise, you are looking at quite an expense of
hiring someone to fulfill that role or of training
someone to do it.
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7. Cost
The good news is that with a librarian in place to
initiate the process, the costs are low.
Adobe Content Reader $250 (Purchased from EBSCO)
http://www.adobe.com/products/content-
server.html
http://support.ebsco.com/ebooks/
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8. Cost
Apple 8-GB iPods
– Purchased 2 from Amazon.com
for $189.00 each
– The purpose of these is to
provide a fun, easy and reliable
way for our student assistants to
do shelf reading
– Free software called ShelfLister
was obtained
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/shelf
check/
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9. Budget
Kindle Kindle Keyboard 3G Nook
$79 $139 $99
Case $29.99 Case $29.99 Case $17.46
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10. Reference & Instruction
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11. By the numbers
• 2010-11 FTE: 1708
• 2010-11 Instruction
Sessions: 55 (1040 attendees)
• 2010-11 Reference Desk
Transactions: 1699
– 1178 related to computer,
software, technology
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12. By the numbers
• 2010-11 Graduate Enrollment: 567
10 What does this mean and why does it matter?

13. Evolving Research “Desk”
• Meebo Chat
– From the ref desk to the
chat room
• LibGuides
– A true “handheld librarian”
• iPhone, Android, Tablet
explosion
– Changing dialogue at the
11
desk

14. Research Goes Sexy-Mobile
• Mobile research databases:
– American Chemical Society
(free app)
– Bio One (mobile)
– Ebsco (free app)
– Lexis-Nexis (Beta mobile)
– Online Catalog
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15. Old Dog, New Tricks…FREE!
• Painless “face-lift”
• Revitalize existing resources
• Promote scholarly research in a new way
• Market to the tech-savvy (smart phone-driven)
student and faculty population
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16. Projects and Tools
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17. Mobile Catalog
• First Mobile Project
• Released November 14, 2011
https://voyager.georgetowncollege.edu/vwe
bv/searchBasic?sk=mobile
• Scaled downed Voyager Catalog
• Based on UT Arlington’s Mobile
Catalog http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
• Different Mobile Catalog Codes
available on EL Commons
• 111 visits, 427 page views and 31
scans of the QR code since release
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18. Shelflister
• Developed by Michael
Doran at UT Arlington
• Inventory Program for
Voyager
• Code Available for
download
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/shelfcheck/
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19. QR Codes in the Catalog
• Redesigned Catalog
Interface
• Added two QR code
features
• Link ‘What’s this?’
webpage explaining QR
codes
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20. iPhone App
• Most registered mobile
devices on campus are
iOS devices
• Phonegap http://phonegap.com/
• HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Used Adobe
Dreamweaver and Xcode
• Just Released (LRC)
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21. Another Mobile Catalog
• jQuery Mobile
• Catalog search in iPhone
app links out to this
mobile catalog
• Track mobile catalog
access from iPhone app
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22. Tools
Mobile Development Tools Available Coding
• HTML, CSS, etc. • EL Commons (Ex Libris Users)
• Phonegap • Jason Clark, Montana State University
http://www.lib.montana.edu/~jason/files.php
• Adobe Dreamweaver (or other HTML
editor) • Skidmore College Mobile Website Code
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer
• jQuery Mobile &chrome=true&srcid=0B2FE4kld_9DyNjY5ZWM4M
• jQ Touch GMtNmI4NC00YWQ2LTk4NjQtNjUyMmY5MGYzN2
M3&hl=en_US&pli=1
• Sencha Touch
• iLibrarian blog
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2011/7-tools-to-
create-a-mobile-library-website-without-technical-
knowledge/
• Ask us, we will share our code
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23. Resources
• Adobe Content Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/content-server.html
• Georgetown College Mobile Catalog
https://voyager.georgetowncollege.edu/vwebv/searchBasic?sk=mobile
• Phonegap http://phonegap.com/
• UT Arlington Mobile Catalog http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
• Shelflister Software Code (Michael Doran)
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/shelfcheck/
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24. Thank You
• Kyle Potter
• Michele Ruth
• Helen Bischoff
• Ben Rawlins
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