Category: m-libraries
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Worldcat Local now an iPhone app
Previously available as a website optimized for mobile devices, Worldcat Local is now also available as an iPhone app. I played with it a bit last night and really liked the mapping features. It knew where I was and where the 10 closest libraries to me were. Well, those libraries that participate in Worldcat; it…
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PubMed on the iPhone
Karen points to information about a 3rd party iPhone app to search PubMed from the iPhone or iPod Touch: PubMed On Tap. If you're aware of other official or unofficial applications allowing database searches, please add them to the M-Libraries page on the LibSuccess Wiki.
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Orange County Lib System (FL) Brings Library Catalog Access to iPhones
From the press release found at Library Technology Guides, “The Orange County Library System in Florida is providing iPhone access to its library catalog using Innovative’s AirPAC product. A test-group of library users is now using iPhones to search the catalog, request items, and renew checked-out materials. This new capability launched in January 2009 as…
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Reviews and comparisons of ebook readers – Link Dump
All this week I've noticed a large number of other bloggers posting their thoughts on various things related to ebooks; Kindle for the iPhone, other iPhone readers, dedicated ebook readers, etc. Here's the list that I've got: Further thoughts on the Kindle iPhone experience "As the market opens up, more choices will appear. That's all…
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Second thoughts on Shortcovers
Yesterday I blogged about the new Shortcovers service. Last night I read a short story and have the following observations. I like how I can browse the website from my desktop, bookmark titles, and then have them appear on my iPhone for reading. (I can also, of course, browse and bookmark from the iPhone). I…
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Is ProQuest missing the boat with mobile SafariBooksOnline?
Earlier this week, Safari Books Online launched a mobile interface to their product at http://m.safaribooksonline.com. The University of Calgary has an institutional subscription to Safari Books Online via ProQuest, and I naively assumed after we threw this new URL into our ezproxy configuration I'd be able to access the new site via my iPhone. Nope. …
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Mobile Drupal
Really excited to find the following post: An overview of Mobile modules for Drupal on Tom Deryckere's new blog, Making mobile web sites with Drupal. Haven't really had a chance to go through it yet, but wanted to share :-)
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Posted: m-libraries 2009 Program
The Program(me) for the 2009 m-libraries conference is up. Not surprisingly, when you think about it, lots of international content (you know, from countries where they actually USE cell phones to do stuff).
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Google Unveils Cellphone Version of Digital-Book Collection
As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Google has just made 1.5 million of their scanned books and made them available in a format suitable for reading on mobile devices. Oddly, at this moment getting there is not an option from their official iPhone app, nor does visiting http://books.google.com on the iPhone automatically redirect…