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Re: Appropriate Discussion?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Pagliero Popp (812) 855-8170)
Mon Mar 13 20:20:33 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:30:05 -0500
From: "Mary Pagliero Popp (812) 855-8170" <popp@INDIANA.EDU>
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Hi! I agree this is an appropriate discussion for PACS-L. More and more
hype in the business world is moving toward wireless appliances from
laptops to mobile phones that connect to the Internet. We in libraries
will need to think about how we will design our services, our web pages,
our web-based catalogs and other information resources, and our facilities
to meet the needs of wireless users.
There are standards for design of web sites used on portable devices (e.g.
Palm Pilots) that we need to begin to study. Has anyone, particularly a
university with a large business school, begun to look at such standards
and to think about alternate designs? Many of the portable devices will
not work well with graphics-intensive designs. Will we need to develop
multiple interfaces?
Mary
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Mary Pagliero Popp, Library Information Technology Services
Indiana University Libraries, Library E456, Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-8170 FAX: (812) 856-4979 popp@indiana.edu
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Drew, Bill wrote:
> In my investigating library services for laptop users and mobile users,
> several people have suggested that I start a new discussion list. Wouldn't
> be appropriate to have such discussions here on PACS-L? The discussion
> could be changed to library services in response to ubiquitous computing
> rather than just laptop users.
>
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> Wilfred (Bill) Drew
> Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
> SUNY Morrisville College Library
> drewwe@morrisville.edu ; AOL IM: BillDrew4
> Home: http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe
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