LIR/AGI Mobile Technologies Symposium
Ronán Kennedy, NUI Galway
Introduction
Web access from mobile devices will exceed desktop access by
2015 [source]
React or Prepare?
Introduction
• Prepare a strategy
1. analyse the demand
2. access to resources
3. access to catalogue
4. access to Library services – room bookings, etc.
• Seamless mobile access through
- responsive web design
- apps – native or hybrid?
4.2% of site usage is mobile – at least
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October 2012
Catalogue Searches: 655,000
4.2% - 27,500 on mobile
2. Access To Resources - The Mobile Hub
Apps
Mobile
Hub
Mobile
Sites
Didn’t turn out that way
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard
work”
Peter Drucker
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Native App Difficulties – for dedicated users only
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Massive OS discrepancies – heavy Apple weighting
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On campus access only
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App only allows searching, not access (to avoid authentication issues)
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Institutional email must be accessible from device
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Time-limited tokens
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Personal profile on site needed
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Legibility issues – in design and fulltext
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User would need to know the resource and its content very well
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Publishers don’t make money on these – future implications
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Native Apps
Discovery NOT Delivery
Open University Project: most users don’t want to read fulltext
on their devices [source]
The Vendors’ View
“We’re not going to bother with apps, we’re going
concentrate on mobile site accessibility.
They’re quick, they’re clean and your users don’t need to do
anything different”
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3. Access To Catalogue - Mobile Catalogue
Well embedded ‘desktop version’
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4. Access to Library Services
App or Mobile Web?
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Functionality Required (Hardware needed? Offline access needed?)
Planned user interaction and activity
User preference and devices
Resources – money and time
Technical Knowledge (different programming languages for different types
of app)
• Timescale
[source]
Mobile Web App
• Uses open web technology: HTML5, CSS, Java
• Deployed through the web, hosted locally
• No need to worry about many SDKs
• Embraces all OSs
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Thanks for listening!
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