1. Presented By Pat Denholm, Dean of Library Services & Yolanda Sheppard, Technical Assistant/Library Webmaster 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

2. Academic library collection growth is driven by patron demand … Budget challenges will continue and libraries will evolve as a result. Changes in higher education will require that librarians possess diverse skill sets. Demands for accountability and assessment will increase Digitization of unique library collections will increase and require a larger share of resources.  Explosive growth of mobile devices and applications will drive new services. Smart phones,  e-book readers, iPads, and other handheld devices will drive user demands and expectations. The 2009 ECAR study of undergraduate students … found that 51.2 % of respondents owned an Internet-capable handheld device and another 11.8 % planned to purchase one within the next 12 months. Increased collaboration will expand the role of the library within the institution and beyond Libraries… continue … to develop scholarly communication and intellectual property services Technology will continue to change services and required skills. … library will change as physical space is repurposed and virtual space expands. 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

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4. CONTEXT NOT CONTENT  Add the most important and useful information  Users are paying fees to access your mobile site SCREEN SIZE  Different mobile phones have different screen sizes BACK BUTTONS AND LINKING  Some phones do not have back buttons FONT SIZE  Increase to improve readability CLICKABLE AREA  Increase for phones with less precision REDUCE BANDWIDTH  Use small images.jpg, gif, or png (load faster)  Mobile browsers maybe set to not display images (alt tag) LIMIT TEXT ENTRY  Use radio buttons or lists 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

5. Content=device-width Max, Min, and Initial-scale =1 User-scalable=0 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

6. Page should still be understandable with out style sheet.  Some mobile browsers do not recognize style sheets  Mobile browser may not be set up in mobile view SidneyMobile with out a style sheet Images Turned off (alt Tag) 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

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8. Clickable Email and Phone Number href="tel:12014477436" href="mailto:askaLib@bergen.edu " 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

9. DATABASE SEARCHDIRECTIONS 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

10.  http://iphonetester.com http://iphonetester.com  http://www.opera.com/mo bile/demo/ http://www.opera.com/mo bile/demo/ 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award

11. Stats 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award Oct 1, 2010 – May 2, 2011 Stats Provided by Google Analytics

12. 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award Vendors : Limited mobile sites Cost of Data Plans

13. 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award Library Web site Library [mobile] Web site

14. 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award SOURCES: Robin Ashford QR codes and academic libraries: Reaching Mobile Users. College & Research Libraries News, November 2010 71:526-530. Jamie Seeholzer and Joseph A. Salem, Jr. Library on the Go: A Focus Group Study of the Mobile Web and the Academic Library. College & Research Libraries, January 2011 72:9-20.

15. http://www.bergen.edu/sslmobile Pat Denholm pdenholm@bergen.edu Tel: 201-447-7130 Fax: 201-493-8167 Yolanda Sheppard ysheppard@bergen.edu Tel :201-612-5378 Fax: 201493-8167 5/3/2011NJLA Technology Innovation Award