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MCIG Midwinter meeting minutes

  • 1.  MCIG Midwinter meeting minutes

    Posted Feb 08, 2010 10:11 AM

    LITA Mobile Computing Interest Group

    ALA Midwinter, Boston, MA

    January, 17th 2010

    4:00pm – 5:30pm

     

    Cody Hanson (chair, convening)

    20+ in attendance

    Minutes courtesy of Dale Poulter

     

    Introductions (see attendence sheet)

     

    How should this interest group function?

     

    The group discussed the preferred ways for communicating between members.  After a short the discussion the decision was to use ALA Connect as the primary communication vehicle with regular posts to LITA-L to increase awareness of the group to non-members. Members are encouraged to post information about their institutions mobile deployment to the ALA Connect group.

     

     

    The group decided that it would be great to have a showcase of current implementations.  Volunteers and suggested volunteers were discussed.  These included:

     

    ·       Cody Hanson: U of Minnesota

    ·       North Carolina State Univ.

    ·       Dale Poulter: Vanderbilt

    ·       Duke

    ·       the iStanford guy

    ·       Abilene Christian (currently passes out iPhones to freshmen)

    ·       Boopsie

     

     

    Some original applications or research of mobile interfaces in the library included:

    ·       Red Laser

    ·       SOBEACH

    ·       Duke's Iphone app

    ·       iStanford guy

    ·       DID NOT GET LOCATION -- LSTA funded anthropological study of student's use of mobile evices on campus

     

     

    Cody will post a call to LITA-L for volunteers.

    The remainder of the meeting was used to discuss aspects about designing for mobile interfaces.  These included:

     

    ·       html5 advantages for building offline databases for storage

    ·       phone gap framework for building applications

    ·       How to provide only the desired information.  A completely different model between desktops and mobile - people often find the information with the phone but use it in a different location.

    ·       the main page that seems to be accessed via a mobile device are the library hours

    ·       People might want to know computer availability, how long the cafe line is, availability in the reading room. 

    ·       Libraryhelp works well in mobile devices very heavy on im traffic allows transferring to other queues and emailing of transcripts.

    ·       How much is enough as far as developing for multiple and downgraded apps