Curtin Library Mobile
Event
Developer Meets Developer, November 2009
Date
November 4, 2009
Presenter
Matthew Robinson, Library Management Systems Analyst, Curtin University Library, Western Australia
Abstract
In July of this year Curtin University Library launched a mobile website targeted at mobile devices such as the iPhone and Windows Mobile. The mobile website provides a number of facilities for mobile users, including the ability to retrieve information from Ex Libris applications. The Aleph X-Server API are used for searching the catalogue and for retrieving borrower information, and a list of all the library’s electronic databases is generated directly from the MetaLib database.
Curtin Library is about to redevelop its main website and the development of the mobile website has presented some new ideas for the implementation of the dynamic components of this site. As a bonus, the server-side implementations of these new techniques can be reused without modification for other methods of delivery, such as iPhone applications and web widgets.