Hi Kalie,

Two of my graduate assistants and I recently developed a user-centered mobile
web app/interface <http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/m/> for our library. We spent
a lot of time doing focus groups and user testing over the course of two
semesters worth of development time, and have been pretty happy with the
results. One suggestion I would definitely have is to use a web framework
like jQuery Mobile <http://jquerymobile.com/> or
Bootstrap<http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/index.html>to jump start
your efforts. Then, later when you have everything the way
you want it, you can use a service like PhoneGap <http://phonegap.com/> to
wrap it up into native apps you can offer on Google Play or Apple's App
Store.

If you're interested I've presented a few times on it during the lifetime
of the project, and have the (slightly similar) slide decks posted to
SlideShare: Society for Scholarly Publishing 2011 Fall
Seminar<http://www.slideshare.net/whelman/langsdale-mobile-a-user-centered-approach>,
Internet Librarian
2012<http://www.slideshare.net/whelman/responsive-user-driven-mobile>
and
recently at an Amigos Online
conference<http://www.slideshare.net/whelman/mobile-orimmobileamigoshtml5css3>.
That last one was on how we used responsive design techniques to re-purpose
our mobile site to act as the interface on 3 iPad search kiosks I've
installed here at Langsdale.

I've also published our code at https://github.com/whelman/

I'd be happy to talk more about our experiences, just send me an email if
you're interested.

  -Bill Helman

Integrated Digital Services Librarian. The University of Baltimore,
Langsdale Library

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Kaile Zhu <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Anybody has experience on how to build mobile app for your library?  If
> your library paid for the development, please also share your experience.
>  Thanks.  - Kelly
>