The OU Library in Your Pocket

www.open.ac.uk/library

Keren Mills, (@mirya)

Hassan Sheikh (@hassan_sheikh)

www.open.ac.uk/library

Mobilizing The Open University

Library

Mobile-friendly library website

Before After

Consolidated search

• For small screens

• Searching both local collections and third party/subscription content (e-Books, e-journals, Library Catalogue etc.)

M-library Design/Technology

http://cli.gs/mSafari

www.open.ac.uk/iknow

Mobile Open Library

– Phase 2

Key recommendations from Arcadia@Cambridge

• SMS services – renewals, overdue etc. notifications

• Piloting text referencing services – Ask a librarian (160 character answers)

• Mobile OPAC interface

• Optimize Library website for mobiles

• Adapt Athabasca’s Digital Reading Room model

• Mobile access to SCONUL database of libraries

• Library audio toursarcadia@cambridge: rethinking the role of the research library in a digital agehttp://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk