Several mobile friendly initiatives which improve mobile user’s experience with library resources will be discussed. These initiatives include creation of a mobile library website, development of mobile friendly authentication user interface, implementation of a computer availability mobile page and offering of texting reference service.
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1. Mobile Patrons: Better Services on the Go October 3, 2010 Vincci Kwong and Gary Browning Indiana University South Bend 13 th Annual LITA National Forum
http://uits.iu.edu/page/ayzz The backend is a J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) application. It runs in a clustered Tomcat environment with an Oracle database. It was modeling after the work that MIT had done.
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Ezproxy has a ‘static’ html login page that can be configured to appear how you like. Since Ezproxy uses Apache – First idea is to incorporate a mobile detection library possibly using PHP. Once we found a library that looked promising, we tried to incorporate it. Unfortunately it failed. We contacted OCLC and found we cannot incorporate PHP into the html login page.
This was suggest by OCLC. Bypasses the built-in Authentication page. OCLC has sample code in the support section of their website.
Ezproxy must be configured to use the same “secret” (shhh) for a ticket to be generated. The ezproxyticket.php library is available for download from the OCLC website This gets us the ability to use Ezproxy; however, we still need to incorporate an authentication mechanism.
Public Libraries … it is my understanding that most libraries have access to some ‘flavor’ of the SIP protocol by 3M. For example, one public library uses TLC. They would need to create a mobile login page and communicate to the TLC system using SIP.
IU CAS response is easier to code for; however, applications that have built-in support for CAS will not typically work with IU CAS.
Explain, again, that these steps are specific to CAS