Mobile Library Services

Jukka Englund

October 2004

Mobile Library Services

Agenda

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/

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

Network and devices

Network and devices

Wireless networks

WLAN (WiFi)

Library as a hotspot

GPRS - EDGE – UMTS

Devices

PDAs

PalmOS

PocketPC

Mobile Phones

Symbian OS

Problem: applications are OS dependent

Web-based

Web-based

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

SMS-based

SMS-based

Article Requests (Document Delivery)

Text message: 173501

Terkko kauko PMID email name address

Delivery: email with RGO file (RepliGo Viewer)

Hybrid

Hybrid

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

Applications

Applications

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

Thank you!

Jukka.Englund@helsinki.fi

http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/english/mobile/mobileservices.htm