What is a mobile device Smartphone Iphone Ipad PDA Blackberry Enterprise digital assistants can further extend the available functionality for the business user by offering integrated data capture devices like barcode, RFID and smart card readers. From It is a pocket-sized computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input and/or a miniature keyboard

1. Library thing’s Library Anywhere An established player Known to work with LMS, but not platform dependent Reasonable pricing Solutions > Mobile Catalogue Possible products 3. III’s Airpac Millennium product Proprietary product. LMS dependent Costly 5. Boopsie Minimal staff resources required Fast & Affordable 4. In - house design No programmer Subscription to external service cheaper than time needed to develop in-house. Slow development III users group – developing css to share. 2. MobileCat Developed at the Tri-College libraries, MobileCat provides a mobile-ready interface to III WebOPACs. It is written in PHP. An example of this web application can be viewed at

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Implementing Library Anywhere Library anywhere selected Order created and issued Account Access on Librarything enabled Edit pages in WYSIWYG interface It is a micro site Library thing do all the work Xml editing available if wanted but not required. View mock up to test Javascript placed on library web site How we did it

Implementing Library Anywhere Testing Web browser > Safari, IE, Firefox Test iphone / ipad app Test android app Launch Time frame c.2 weeks from order creation Could be less now, as we were early adopters How we did it