The Mobile Library
The vision of The Mobile Library is to address the challenge of library bypass by bringing the library to the public. To make the library available to the public where and when they need it through the medium of the ubiquitous mobile/smart phones and PDA's.
The Mobile Library aims to promote existing library offers AND to offer new dedicated services 2.0 style, taking advantage of the multimedia potential of even the most basic mobile phones of today.
The channels: A content adapted 'mobsite', optimized for a wide range of mobile devices, drawing content from regular library web site databases as well as offering specifically mobile-oriented content. A certain degree of interaction with the library OPAC is accommodated through the 'mobsite' and a host of SMS-services, including subscription-based SMS-alerts and two-way SMS-communication.
Technical specifications are based explicitly on existing/prevalent technology in order to facilitate a realistic and economical solution, readily adopted and implemented - even by smaller public libraries.
Torben Fløjgaard Jacobsen
Aalborg Public Library