Track A: Mobile Trends & Practices – Wednesday 21 March 
13:30 – 14:30

This session details how more and more libraries are developing a mobile presence. Mairn discusses creating web apps that resemble native apps with jQTouch and creating mobile apps using Android’s App Inventor. Dahl explores the major mobile frameworks available for simplifying the development process. The next presentation discusses an app that integrates a mobile library catalog, account notification, hours, directions, and scanning bar codes to check availability of books at the local library. Tibbetts shares how his public library built an app that integrates with OverDrive and has the ability to check items out. He explains how the library migrated its website to the cloud and circulated iPads among the library staff.

Presented by: Chad Mairn, David Dahl, Robert Johnson, Ted Gutmann, Michael Berse, Hutch Tibbetts