Category: m-libraries
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SafariBooks Online to support institutional subscriptions later this year?
I received an email the other day letting me know I hadn't been selected to participate as a beta tester for SafariBooks Online iPad app. I exchanged a couple of emails with the Mobile Product Manager, letting him know that our users want to be able to access our institutional subscription, and he responded that…
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Lots of eReader news – linkdump
After teasing you about the Kobo several months ago, one actually did show up in my house; my wife bought one a month or so ago, and really likes it. I’ve compared it to reading on an iPad (which I don’t own either), and find the Kobo a much better form factor for what it’s…
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Evidence of price gouging in the Canadian mobile market?
AdMob (recently acquired by Google) has an interesting report out this month in which they compare iPhone and Android unique devices across the world for the month of April, 2010. What *I* found very interesting is that Canada is the only country in the world where there are more iPod Touch users than iPhone users!…
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The strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads
Oooh, Dan D’Agostino, Collection Development Librarian at the University of Toronto, has an excellent guest post at TeleRead where he starts to nail the current problem with academic ebooks; namely that they’re not downloadable. This is the first in a two? part post that examines the strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads. …
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Distant Librarian’s top 10 posts from 2009
I was poking around Google Analytics for work yesterday and thought it would also be fun to peek at the top ten posts for my blog for 2009. Here they are, without comment: Crappy Experience at the Apple Store A little more info on the Harvard linking BS Jing Pro and Jing Free Is 2009…
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Gale’s iPhone app – AccessMyLibrary
Got a chance to play with Gale's new iPhone app, which acts as a portal to its AccessMyLibrary service. AccessMyLibrary is a service that allows you to access your local public library's Gale databases w/o having to authenticate through the library. So back to the iPhone app. In a nutshell, it works well as far…
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QR codes in the library
Aaron at Walking Paper linked to this great short Prezi by Laurie Bridges on how using QR Codes in Libraries and Museums.
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3 more mobile-friendly vendor sites
All three now on the M-Libraries wiki page, Resource Shelf points out that LexisNexis, EBSCOhost, and Summon are all sporting fancy new mobile-friendly interfaces.
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SirsiDynix developing an iPhone app
This isn’t brand new news, but I was reminded of it today. SirsiDynix is holding a contest to name their new iPhone app (to be released sometime in 2010 – no other date given). From the contest page: SirsiDynix is excited to announce an iPhone application that will be available in 2010. The app will…