[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile app

[Laura Horgan]

Do you have libguides by chance?  If so they have a pretty easy tool to set up for mobile .  http://libguides.middlesex.mass.edu/mobile/509

From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Steven W. Campbell
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 1:49 PM
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile app


My library system migrated to Evergreen in January as part of the Missouri Evergreen consortia. We recently have been looking into a mobile app for our OPAC that will work with iPhones and other Apple mobile devices. I was surprised to learn that there doesn't appear to be an open source mobile app available for the Evergreen OPAC. I can hardly believe it with the rapid growth of mobile devices.

Boopsie will design our library a mobile app for $5,000, plus a $12,000 annual maintenance fee (every year). I thought that seemed high. I also thought that if we were going to spend that much money, I would rather spend it on funding an open course version that everyone can use and may not require as much money for future maintenance costs.

Am I missing something? Is there an open source mobile app available for Evergreen's OPAC for iPhones and other Apple mobile devices (or any type of mobile device)? Is there something already being worked on?

Thanks,
Steve

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Steven W. Campbell
Library Director
Scenic Regional Library
308 Hawthorne Dr.
Union, MO 63084
636-583-0652
www.scenicregional.org<http://www.scenicregional.org/>

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