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iPhone News for Libraries

Lots of action in the and mobile phone area for libraries!

1. "If you want to create an iPhone application to search your library?s online catalog (etc), taking a look at the DCPL?s solution wouldn?t be a bad place to start. The code is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license and you can download it at the DCPL Labs website." It's already optimized for SirsiDynix. DCPL is being very generous in releasing the code.

2. I got a preview of the DCPL Blackberry application for the library at the SirsiDynix conference last week too. It looked pretty cool and maybe we can get Obama to use it on his new Barackberry! (grin). I suspect that DC has more iPhones and Blackberries per square mile than anywhere else in the US.

3. Last week SirsiDynix also demonstrated several mobile applications for all of our products including the iPhone. Mobile applications for the the Blackberry and using the Google Android, open handset alliance, were also demonstrated at the SirsiDynix Joint Users (CODI/UUGI/COSUGI) Conference in Dallas last week. Since all SD developers are encouraged to spend 10% of their time on any project they want to invest that time in, many of these initiatives were grass roots developments.

4. Previously available as a website optimized for mobile devices, Worldcat Local is now also available as an iPhone app.

Mobile libraries are bigging it up!

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).