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Apps and mobile websites

Apps

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks.

Mobile websites

http://m.flickr.com vs. http://www.flickr.com/

Library user survey: Mobile Devices

Mobile Device Survey

Still running until end of OctoberSo far nearly 300 responses

What are our initial findings?

Facebook!

EmailGoogle

BBC

Angry Birds!

More of a spread compared to answers to most used

UpToDateORH intranet

“UptoDate and BNF would be very heavily used in clinical areas if developed, although both available via any web browser so don't need a specific app. Currently the main obstacle to access is wireless network coverage of the hospital site - Students and staff can't easily gain access to most of the network.”

iPad Lending

What’s it for? (according to Apple!)

“Technology so advanced, you’ll forget it’s even there.

When you pick up your iPad, it becomes an extension of you.

It makes surfing the web, checking email, watching films and reading books so natural, you’ll wonder why you ever did it any other way.”

What’s it for? (not in sales speak!)

A platform for audio-visual media including:Books

PeriodicalsMoviesMusicGames

Web content

iPads and Medicine?

Many published studies in Medical and Library journals, and examining and evaluating their use

– are they up to date and valid?

At the minute? In the future?Who knows!

Does it matter?

Deciding on the Apps

Internet searchLiterature search

Contact other librariesList of apps:

http://www.netvibes.com/medicalapps#Apps_Database_ZBMED

What’s on the iPad

www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/medicine/ipadlending

Medical appsNon-Medical appsOxford Handbooks

Productivity software

Other steps

iTunes set up – one itunes account, download to two PCs (one at each site)

Issue procedureReturn and reset procedure

Feedback

Next steps for mobile access to our library website and resources

Bodleian Library wide website redevelopment project, currently undertaking user profiling

Mobile access increasingly important

Mobile Device Survey and iPad lending Feedback used to decide what resources we purchase

Keep up-to-date with publishers and other developers

Conclusions and questions?