The Mobile Library at Southampton provides library services through mobile applications. It uses an app called BookMyne that allows users to find books, check their account, and renew books from their mobile devices. The app connects to the library systems through web services, allowing library data and actions to be accessed independently from other applications. This sets a precedent for freeing up library data and integrating it in new ways through third-party apps in the future.

1. The Mobile Library at
Southampton
Ric Paul
Clinical Sciences Librarian,
University of Southampton
R.M.Paul@southampton.ac.uk
Gorman

2. Introduction
 Mobile information provision at
Southampton
 How the technology works
 What this might mean for the future of
our interaction with users

3. Circulation System/
Library Management System
(LMS)
OPAC
Terminals
Users’ Own
Computers
Web
Catalogue
Mobile
Version

4. BookMyne
 SirsiDynix app
◦ iPhone & Android
 Features:
◦ Find your library
◦ Find books
◦ Check your account
◦ Renew your books

6. Price Comparison Using Web Services
Insurance
Company A
Insurance
Company B
Insurance
Company C
How much should my
car insurance cost?
paddynapper

7. Web Services
 Data & actions made available from
an information system for use by other
web applications
 Can be public or private
 Web services server and client
application are independent

8. Web Services
Server A:
Directory Service
Client
Server B:
Web Service
How do I ask you
for the weather?
Dry & sunny
Take a look at
this: WSDL
Tell me the weather
for Southampton
Where can
I find a
“weather
service”?
There’s a “weather
service” on Server B

9. Circulation System
Web
Services
3rd Party
App
OPAC
Terminals
Users’ Own
Computers
Web
Catalogue
Mobile
Version
Users’ Own Devices

10. Campus Information Using Web
Services
Timetable Library
Record
Student
Record

11. campusM App
 Created by oMbiel
 iPhone & Android
 “MySouthampton”
at UofS
 Freely available
◦ Some functionality
(timetables, module
info, etc.) only
available if you log in

13. The Immediate Future for
MySouthampton
 Connection to Unicorn via web
services
 Integration with more of the
University’s information systems
 Friend locator

14. The Future for Online Library
Services?
 Freeing-up library information
 Independent library catalogue apps
 Mashing-up library information