Q-Factor General Quiz-7th April 2024, Quiz Club NITW
Library in their pocket
1. Library in their Pocket
Using Technology to Meet Patrons Halfway
Presented by:
Sarah Glassmeyer, JD MLS
Director of Content Development
Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
sarah@cali.org
2. Agenda
• What is mobile tech?
– Considerations
• WordPress Basics
– Plugins/Widgets
– Themes
• QR Codes
• eBooks, eReaders, ePatrons?
3. Notes
• Not a CALI sales pitch
• Arthur C. Clarke magic
• Glassmeyer Theory of Library Tech
– Cheap
– Easy
– Patrons will actually use it
• Stuff they’re already using
• Stuff they *should* be using
5. The Stats Slide
• One mobile device for ever person on
earth by 2015
• More people use phones to go online
than PCs by 2013
• 71% expect mobile site to work as fast
as desktop
• 23% of adults have cursed at their
phone when the mobile site doesn’t
work
Source: http://www.howtogomo.com
6. Mobile Considerations
• Size
• Operating system
– Be system agnostic
– Flash
• Play to their strengths
– Cameras
– Pre-made apps
– Ubiquitous-ness
– Easy
7. To App or Not to App?
• Short answer: Nope.
• The case against apps:
– Lots of development time/money
– Extra step to access
– Not system agnostic
– Rarely an advantage use wise
– Maintenance of changes
9. Mobile Friendly sites
• Keep it quick
• Simple navigation
• Thumb friendly
• Visibility
• Mobile redirect (if possible – link okay)
• Not sure?
http://www.howtogomo.com/
13. Q. What if your site is NOT
mobile friendly?
A. Make one.
14. Wordpress
• Blogging platform
• Hosted or Self hosted
– Wordpress.com
– Wordpress.org
– MU (your institution or
CALI classcaster
• Open Source
• Plugins
15. Plugins/Widgets
• ~19,000 Plugins
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
• Uses
– Add functionality with press of button
– change look
– change entire site
(Themes also do some of the above but are
more appearance based.)
16. Wordpress Uses
• Library Website
• Research Guide(LibGuides)
• Course webpage (TWEN/Blackboard)
• Other type of website
• Blog
• Podcast Host
All of these will be mobile friendly!
28. PART THREE
Q. We know what mobile means and how
to make a mobile friendly website. How do
we get it from the web onto their device?
A. QR Codes
29. QR Codes
• Quick Response Code
• Free to make, Free to decipher
• Bar code on steroids
– URL
– App in app store
– Contact information
– Phone number
30. QR Codes, 2
1. What do you want QR code to point
to?
2. Create QR Code
3. Release into wild
4. Patrons scan them
36. eBooks
• Why eBooks?
– Easier to read on mobile than PDF or Word
• What are eBooks?
– 2 Standards – ePub and .mobi(Kindle)
– Mini-website
• What about iBooks?
– Forget it. Just another app.
37. How to Make eBooks
• Full instruction (with pictures!) on my website:
http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=951 (Making
eBooks for Fun and No Profit)
– Free software
• Open Office Writer to ePub extension
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub
• Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
• SIGIL http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
– Word -> Open Office Doc -> Save as ePub ->Edit in SIGIL -
>transform to .mobi in Calibre
• Alternatively, wordpress plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/epub
38. Suggested Uses
• Anything you put on website in word or
PDF
• Anything in the public domain
– Statutory supplements
• Law reviews/in House publication