Comparison of Mobile and Fixed Use of SmartLibrary

Where the streets have no name

“…They struggle with every part of the process: the catalogue confounds them, Dewey is incomprehensible and the shelves mystify them. The multifaceted nature of the problem means that no single approach, including catalogue usability [5], signage [10] or computer-assisted wayfinding [11] can solve the problem. Similarly, the information literacy approach (where users are trained by librarians to interact with library systems) will not work; it will only reach the rare users who use library training [18].…”

“…A number of solutions to users' problems with library shelving have been trialed, from low-tech solutions including rearranging the shelves [9] and providing better signage [10] through to hightech approaches for example using wayfinding devices [11]. Similarly, there are numerous studies of how people use libraries (for example [7,12]) and consult librarians (for example [13,14]).…”

Development and Application of Mobile Technology in South Korean Libraries

“…Operators also plan to enhance user convenience and facilitate service by developing new models that combine current library service with technical services such as RFID, mobile networks, mobile devices, etc. For example, SmartLibrary provides mapbased guidance to books and collections on a PDA (Aittola et al 2004). 3.…”

Methods for Applied Mobile Digital Library Research: A Framework for Extensible Wayfinding Systems

“…This research at Oulu allowed mobile device users to perform a catalog search from their phone, and then be guided to the location of the book in that library with a positioning engine leveraging wireless infrastructure of the library (Aittola, Ryänen, and Ojala 2003;Aittola, et al 2004). In their articles, the engineering researchers in Finland cite the work at the Cornell HCI lab, which built prototype mobile computing systems in which test users could take tablet-sized computers into the stacks and use the online catalog to search from their location in the stacks.…”