What is it about?
Rather than purchasing add-on functionality to host a mobile app for a library catalog, this article shows how mobile-friendly web design techniques can make the standard web-based catalog more mobile friendly.
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Why is it important?
Many library cannot afford the additional effort or expense of developing and maintaining a mobile app for their catalog, nor should they have to. The approach presented in this article favors a standards-based approach to accessibility.
Perspectives
I believe this article presents two ideas of lasting value. One is the preference for adaptable web design over more resource-intensive app development; this preference has been borne out by the responsive web design revolution of 2012-2013. The other is the use of JavaScript/jQuery to manipulate the library catalog's DOM when the catalog software makes such changes at an earlier stage impossible. Other than that, the specific design techniques presented here have been superseded by more sophisticated responsive design approaches.
Mr Kenneth R Irwin
Kenneth Irwin
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This page is a summary of: The Homegrown Mobile Catalog: A Quick, Inexpensive Approach to Expanding Access, Technical Services Quarterly, January 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2012.624453.
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