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Wednesday, 17th February 2010

Mobile Sites from Libraries

In our post from earlier today we listed three new mobile web sites (2 academic, 1 public).

Well, we failed to include one more. Oops.

Online today is an iPhone/iTouch app from Cornell University or to be more specific Cornell University Library Labs (great name).

CUL iPhone & iTouch App

According to the web site, this iPhone/ITouch app was designed and built with the help computer science students. It’s not accessible from the App Store yet but the instructions explain how to download a copy are here.

Here’s an image.

What Does It Offer?

+ Search the library catalog
+ Find library hours
+ Manage your library account
+ Call, email or text a libraria
+ Browse featured mobile links

Cornell University Library also provides a mobile web site. That should work in most browsers.

Using this version you can:

+ Search the library catalog
+ Find library hours
+ Find library events and workshops
+ Call, email or text a librarian+
+ Browse featured mobile links

The mobile version is accessible at: http://library.cornell.edu/m

Finally, Cornell U. Library Labs provides a tool allowing users to chat with a librarian on their mobile device.

+ Visit http://ask.library.cornell.edu on your mobile devices and click on the icon to launch the widget.
+ iPhone users will be able to download a direct link to the IM client onto their home screen, represented by an icon.

Nice work by the CUL folks in Ithaca. I’m looking forward to checking out the iPhone app once it becomes available via the AppStore.

Source: Cool Tools from CUL Labs, Twitter


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