1. Mobile Library Services Jukka Englund October 2004

2. Mobile Library Services

3. Agenda

4. National Library of Health Sciences - Terkko University of Helsinki, Medical Faculty Helsinki University Central Hospital National Library in Health Sciences in Finland WHO Documentation Centre http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/

5. Why mobile services? From Print to Hybrid Library Print + Web From Hybrid to Multichannel Library Web Wireless mobile devices Digital TV + etc. User selects the channel Personal user experience

6. Network and devices

7. Wireless networks WLAN (WiFi) Library as a hotspot GPRS - EDGE – UMTS Devices PDAs PalmOS PocketPC Mobile Phones Symbian OS Problem: applications are OS dependent

8. Web-based

9. http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/mobile/ XHTML (Extensible HTML) Non-PC platforms PDAs / mPhones Digital TV..and of course fridges Major databases PubMed Article Requests (Document Delivery) Request and delivery: mobile and wireless

10. SMS-based

11. Article Requests (Document Delivery) Text message: 173501 Terkko kauko PMID email name address Delivery: email with RGO file (RepliGo Viewer)

12. Hybrid

13. PDA + Web PDA: table of contents + abstract PDA: full text selection Web: links to full text + DB searches Ovid@Hand by Unbound Medicine Vertex Online Bibliographic Databases Full Text Journals Electronic Books Clinical Tools

14. Applications

15. Software Free: PalmEKG, MedCalc, PM on Tap Recently started developing Java MIDlets User guides User education Books BMJ PDA Books Problem: no institutional licensing Memory card loans Documents Article requests Course material PowerPoint Slides

17. Thank you! Jukka.Englund@helsinki.fi http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/english/mobile/mobileservices.htm