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Toward Mobile-Friendly Libraries: The Status Quo

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Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012)

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As the number of users accessing web sites from their mobile devices rapidly increases, it becomes increasingly important for libraries to make their homepages “mobile-friendly.” However, to our best knowledge, there has been little attempt to survey how ready existing libraries are towards this upcoming mobile era and to quantitatively analyze the findings via data exploration methods. In this paper, using the W3C’s tool, mobileOK, we characterize the mobile-friendliness of comprehensive set of more than 400 libraries with respect to locations (e.g., world-wide vs. US vs. EU) and types (e.g., desktop vs. mobile). Based on our findings, we conclude that majority of current libraries (regardless of locations and types) be not mobile-friendly at all (with low mobile-friendliness scores of 0.16–0.21). Using mobilization tools, in addition, we demonstrate that the mobile-friendliness of library homepages can be improved significantly (i.e., 67%–82%). As such, much more efforts to make library homepages more mobile-friendly are greatly needed.

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  1. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Dongwon Lee

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  1. Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris  & Fernando Loizides  & 

  2. School of Informatics, City University of London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    George Buchanan

  3. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, The University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Edie Rasmussen

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Lee, D. (2012). Toward Mobile-Friendly Libraries: The Status Quo. In: Zaphiris, P., Buchanan, G., Rasmussen, E., Loizides, F. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_5

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