Hi everybody,
Here at SF State we've been working with David Walker at the Cal State
Chancellor's office to use his Xerxes service for a mobile search
interface of our III catalog. You can take a look at m.library.sfsu.edu.
It's not "live" yet, but is close. The major bit still left to finish is
on our end, making the Request item process more usable on mobile
devices. For that we're writing some custom javascript / css. This
should all be resolved in a week or so. By the way, the same Xerxes
service provides mobile search to almost 100 of our databases.
Thoreau
On 9/15/10 11:47 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
Greetings all,
I'd like to offer my enthusiastic help to any libraries taking the
Mobilecat plunge. The more live catalogs that we have, the better
refined I can make the project. I've been contributing to the project
quite a bit in the past few months, and launched our instance at
http://m.albert.stmarys-ca.edu. Anyone looking for a consult or with
questions, direct them my way.
Recently, we added scoping support and no longer require any edits to
be made inside Millenium or the OPAC. A handful of other features are
in the pipeline. My recent goal has been to minimize the steps needed
for setup.
The more libraries running mobilecat, the more likely we'll see better
quality and pricing offered from the publishers. Would folks be
interested in a talk or presentation of mobilecat sometime in the near
future?
Best,
Dave Hansen
