Second, a new series of tools from Northwestern University in an iPhone app. This page has background and screen caps. In fact, if you click on the iPhone in the introductory article you can move around the app and preview different sections.
One of its most useful functions is to provide much of the library’s digitized collection and its search engines in a mobile format. Stu Baker, one of the apps’ collaborators and Head of Library Management Systems [at Northwestern] said, “The university spends millions of dollars every year to provide access to resources. We just see this as a natural extension of what we do. The library is not just about the physical building, there’s kind of the virtual reference to that.”
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