Content on the Go: Mobile Access to E-Resources

Introduction

Challenges to Consider: Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections

Libraries and museums spend significant resources in an effort to identify, digitize, ingest, describe, store, and display items in their digital asset management systems. Creating user interfaces that provide online access is just one component of building a digital collection, and represents a continual challenge to stay abreast of evolving technology and user expectations. The latest challenge for libraries and museums is to adapt and grow our digital collections to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user.

What is the best process or approach? How much will it cost? We will explore how four different organizations addressed the challenge of mobile access to digital collections: North Carolina State University Libraries, Montana State University Libraries, Duke University Libraries, and the Smithsonian Institution. These organizations are already offering mobile services built around their digital collections, and are leading the effort to present them in uniquely mobile-centric ways.

Carmen's article, co-written with Daniel Suchy of UCSD, is available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january12/mitchell/01mitchell.html

E-books on the go: How a university library experimented with E-book readers

The presenter will describe a pilot project where Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook e-book readers are provided for patrons to check out. Topics covered include start-up considerations, issues with selection and acquisition of content; cataloging approaches, circulation procedures, publicity strategies and evaluation.

Publisher Perspective: Strategies for Mobile Content Delivery

As publishers rush to join the mobile revolution, they face a number of challenges: a growing number of mobile platforms that must be supported, problems with authenticating high-value institution customers, and making their content readable on small form factor devices. At the same time readers increasingly overwhelmed with information and are seeking ways to streamline discovery and organization without missing important developments.

Atypon Systems is a leading technology provider for scholarly publishers worldwide. Literatum, the company's flagship publishing platform, is used to host more than 12 million journal articles, more than 50,000 eBooks, and many other types of scientific and scholarly content. Mr. Picco will discuss strategies for addressing these challenges and the factors influencing the design of Atypon's mobile platform.