This document discusses mobilizing library services at UGent. It provides statistics on mobile internet and device usage that show strong growth. UGent surveyed students and found 43% use mobile internet for email, websites and articles. The document considers options like SMS, mobile websites, and native apps. UGent implemented a hybrid mobile app using Boopsie that provides services like searching, holds, and RSS feeds. The project took 4 months and cost about 4 weeks of a programmer's time.

1. Mobilize UGent
Patrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbach
Digital Architect, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
ABC van mobiele dienstverlening, Turnhout

2. Part I - The Numbers

3. Internet Stats
Facebook Google Twitter
0,5% 2010
1.0% 2012
2.2% 2012
Biblio
WorldCat EBSCO UGent

4. Mother of All Markets

5. Exponential Growth

6. Huge Market
• Mobiles > Cars + PC’s + TV’s
combined
• Revenue SMS > Hollywood
• Box Office + DVD Sales + Music
Industry + Video Games
• Smart Phones, Kindle, Tablet, MP3, Car
Electronics, Mobile Video, Wireless Home
Appliances, Smart Fabrics

7. Increasing capabilities
1998 2002 2006 2007 2010+?
Video Tablet
Camera Email
PDA Web Television
Games Music 3D Touch
GPS
Apps Transflective
Colors

8. 2010 worldwide statistics
2010 Q2 worldwide mobile sales 2010 Q2 smart phone martket
19% of mobile market = smart phones 2010 web statistics
31% of smart phones =
88% Android or iPhone
Android or iPhone
9% of mobiles sold in 2010 is driving the mobile internet

9. University statistics
UC Davis 2009 TU Delft 2010 UGent 2011
43% surf the web
37% surf the web
- 88% read email
- 90% websites - 55% read email
- 72% read books/articles - 65% websites
- 35% read books/articles

10. UGent Platform

11. Where are they?
Enrico Fermi - 1950

12. Part II - Implementation Details

13. What
• SMS?
• Mobile Website?
• Mobile Web Widgets?
• Mobile Web Apps?
• Native Apps?
• Game?

14. Options
• DIY
• Stand on shoulders of others:
• Aleph - Aleph Mobile OPAC by Daniel
Forsman
• Primo - Ex Libris
• Metalib - Xerxes by Davisd Walker
• Generic - Boopsie Inc

15. Aleph Mobile

16. 2010 UvA Aleph Mobile

17. Xerxes

18. Xerxes

19. Primo

20. Primo

21. DIY

22. 2009 UGent DIY

23. 2009 UGent DIY

24. 2009 UGent DIY
• Mobile web = absolute developer fun!
• Issues in 2009:
• Mobile Web != Desktop Web (maybe this will change?)
• Still a bit Wild West: new practices, quirks and workarounds
• Libraries reinvent iPhone / Android look & feel but what about older
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry?
• What about: telephone, GPS, video, camera,
tilt/touch sensors, 3D, app integration (agenda,
etc)? Will HTML5 specs keep up with new
hardware capabilities?

25. Boopsie

26. 2010 Boopsie
• http://www.boopsie.com
• Hybrid Application: Native + HTML code
• iPhone, Android,BlackBerry,WinMobile,...
• MARC Dumps/Z39.50
• Aleph 500 integration
• Word/Excel to define menu’s

28. Main menu...

29. GPS-powered library
search...

30. GPS-powered library
search...

31. Incremental search...
SMS like search, show results while you type...

32. Brief and long views...

33. Hold request...
Here we reused an
in-house
developed web
application...
Boopsie supports
ALEPH hold
requests

34. RSS Feeds..

35. UGent Library tweets...

36. Creating submenu’s: list of
mobile enabled databases

37. Admin interface

38. TOC (sub) Menus

39. TOC in vanilla
interface

40. Reading list

41. Reading list in vanilla
interface

42. Results
• 4 months, 3 persons:
• 2 system librarians : 2 x 0.1 FTE
• 1project manager: 1 x 0.1 FTE
• Costs: ~ 4 weeks paying a programmer
• Some work to synchronize library addresses
(250). Setup the hold request link. Testing on
iPhone, HTC and Nokia.
• More work in color schemes to use, icons, etc...

43. Acknowledgements
• Frank Vandepitte - UGent Library
• Paul Bastijns - UGent Library
• Omar Reygaert - UGent Library
• Gary Fletcher - Boopsie Inc
• Lukas Koster - University of Amsterdam

44. • Sources Report”
MorganStanley “The Mobile Internet
http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html
• Gartner News
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1421013
• Student Smart Phone Survey - Winter
2009
http://clm.ucdavis.edu/pubs/survey/student-w09-2.html
• TU Delft Mobile Survey Results
http://www.slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg/tu-delft-mobile-survey-results
• The Mobile Internet is Bigger Than You
Think
http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/the-mobile-internet-is-bigger-than-you-think

45. Sources
• UBA Mobile
http://www.slideshare.net/lukask/uba-mobile-igelu-2010