TY - GEN
T1 - Toward mobile-friendly libraries
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2012
AU - Lee, Dongwon
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867680809
SN - 9783642332890
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 38
EP - 50
BT - Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - Second International Conference, TPDL 2012, Proceedings
Y2 - 23 September 2012 through 27 September 2012
ER -