All Blog Posts Tagged 'mobile' (9)

Shamblesguru's iPad : The Blog

http://shamblesguruipad.posterous.com/

I have an iPad2 and a New iPad ... and a very happy nephew who has inherited my iPad1.

This Blog is designed to share the…

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Added by Shamblesguru on May 7, 2012 at 12:13pm — No Comments

eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published

eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published on Amazon and Apple iTunes.

... written for educators and parents who have an interest in mobile learning and especially the use of Apple’s iPad.

It is not a “how-to” manual but a resource for enabling more informed decisions regarding the use of…

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Added by Shamblesguru on March 22, 2012 at 7:33am — No Comments

What are mobile friendly library sites offering? A survey.

Everyone knows mobile is hot now, and many libraries are scrambling to add mobile friendly pages. Currently the most complete listing of libraries with mobile sites can be found at the Library Success Wiki site , which lists over 40 such sites.

I thought it would be helpful to look at these 40+ sites to see what… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on May 15, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Are your patrons using CardStar iphone app as their library card?

hile doing research for another blog post, I stumbled upon this amazing Iphone application (they promise support for other mobile platform soon) called CardStar via Oak Park Library. I tweeted about it, and it seems to have gotten a bit of a reaction from the librarain community.

But what does… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on January 18, 2010 at 1:26pm — No Comments

How to check your library catalogue by using your IPhone as a free barcode scanner - ZBar & RedLaser

I tweeted the following on a whim.…

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Added by Aaron Tay on January 18, 2010 at 1:25pm — No Comments

Accessing library catalogue & databases on your Mobile phone

In one of the earliest posts of this blog I observed that libraries faced a uphill battle getting users to come to our web portals to use our databases to search. Libraries tried to work around this problem by using toolbars, opensearch plugins, bookmarklets, smart keyword searches to enable users to search immediately from their browser without the need to visit our… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on January 18, 2010 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Personal mobile web site convertor

As a user of the mobile web on a smart phone I've come across various useful sites to view other sites that don't have an official mobile version, such as skweezer, Mowser, Baresite and Finch. The way it generally works is that you go to one of the websites above, enter the url of the… Continue

Added by Gary Green on September 3, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Library Marketing Tips, Part 1: Avoiding the Noise (Templates Inside)

There are quite a few books on the topic of library marketing, and OCLC's Geek The Library Campaign is definitely getting people talking, but this post is the first in a weekly series talking about marketing text messaging reference services in your library. We think they work well… Continue

Added by Text a Librarian on July 31, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Beyond 160 Characters in the Library - Text Messaging Reference Doesn't Need to Be Limiting

There seem to be varying stories about the history of SMS (Text Messaging) and why Friedhelm Hillebrand, the creator of SMS, decided on 160 as THE number. Some say it's the amount of characters on a typical postcard, many other stories not that he just determined it while sitting at his type-writer in Germany, noting that most sentences do not require more than 160 letters. In… Continue

Added by Text a Librarian on July 20, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments