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“Mobile Choices” and Library Anywhere (CILIP)
1. “Mobile Choices”
and
Library Anywhere
Tim Spalding
Founder, LibraryThing
2. Goals
• Explore the key “mobile decisions”
• Show Library Anywhere
( libanywhere.com )
3. What is LibraryThing?
• Personal cataloging
• Social network for book lovers
• 1.6 million members
4. What is
LibraryThing for Libraries?
• A way to enhance your existing
catalog
librarything.com/forlibraries
5. What is
Library Anywhere?
• A mobile version of your catalog
– Available for most OPACs
• New: Axiell
• Talis: Looking for a first library
– Available on web and native apps.
– Works just like your catalog
– Cheap
Quick demo
6. Tim's Principles
of Library Technology
• Don’t go mad
– QR codes
• Develop if you can
• Buy as if you could develop
• Favor off-the-shelf solutions
• Favor open source
However…
7. But… Mobile is Hard
• Apps are hard
• Mobile web isn’t easy
• Multiple devices, fragmentation
• Hoops
• Open Source is limited
8. Key Mobile Decisions
• Native app or mobile web
• Branded to you or shared/common
• Duplicate back-end system or use
existing
9. Native App or Mobile Web:
Upsides of a Native App
• Sexy
• Spot in the app stores
• Take advantage of device features (eg.,
scanning, offline storage)
• Can be faster
10. Native App or Mobile Web:
Downsides of a Native App
• The ”bad old day" way of doing
software
• Multiple devices, fragmented devices
• Approval and re-approval
• Expensive!
11. Native App or Mobile HTML:
Upsides of Mobile Web
• No need to download app.
• Less buggy
• MUCH cheaper to build
• MUCH cheaper to maintain
Which approach did we take?
12. The Hybrid Approach
• Core is mobile web, with optional app
shell
• Works from the web
• Develops like the web, mostly
• Available in app stores
• Native features available in native apps.
13. Branded to You or
Shared/Common?
• Your app vs. a shared solution
– Branding
– Customization
– Extra development effort
– Possible network effects
Again, we do both!
20. Thank you.
Tim Spalding
tim@librarything.com
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LibraryThing.com
LibraryThing.com/forlibraries
Libanywhere.com
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Notes de l'éditeur
Mobile has reduced your power. Return the bad-old days of software. You can do HTML yourself You can do OS yourself Native app development? # Development skills are # Device fragmentation # Hoops to jump through Approval
Sexy Spot in the app store Take advantage of device features (eg., scanning, offline storage) Can be faster
Sexy Spot in the app store Take advantage of device features (eg., scanning, offline storage) Can be faster
Sexy Spot in the app store Take advantage of device features (eg., scanning, offline storage) Can be faster
Sexy Spot in the app store Take advantage of device features (eg., scanning, offline storage) Can be faster
# Separate vs. tied to your catalog Boopsie Approach: Index your content Are they indexing all the fields Why are you redoing the work?!