So is there any chance this will be contributed back to the community? Kind Regards, Chris
2012/3/9 SANDEEP BHAVSAR <sandeep.bhav...@gmail.com> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ishwar Goudar <goudarish...@googlemail.com> > Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:39 PM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Mysore University OPAC on Mobile > To: lis-fo...@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, fran...@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > Dear Professionals, > > I am happy inform you all that our University Library Web OPAC has gone > the > * mobile way*. We > have adopted open source library automation system KOHA for all our house > keeping activities > including OPAC and the same has been made available in cloud hosting > environment. Anybody > can access our OPAC on *Mobile* at site > http://mopac.mysore-univ.org/ > > To see what it looks like in a mobile phone, please use following site on > your desktop/laptop: > http://iphonetester.com/?url=http://mopac.mysore-univ.org/ > > Apple claims to have sold record number of Smart-phones smashing the the > record of PC sales. The same has > been the fate with Laptops and notebooks. > ( > > http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/smartphone-sales-exceed-those-of-pcs-for-first-time-apple-smashes-record/ > ) > Internet access through Mobile has become the order of the day. This being > the case, I strongly feel that all of us > should go the mobile way for our OPACs. > > Our patrons can use their mobile for reserving, renewing the documents and > all related activities. > We are working towards using Mobile SMSs for overdue reminders, informing > the availability of > reserved documents, documents purchased against requests, broadcasting > important library > related messages, etc. > > The automation model we have adopted is *-* Centralised database, > decentralised inputting/ > housekeeping activities and Universal access to OPAC. Once completed the > OPAC will > have > 10 Lakh records of documents available in colleges, institutes, PG > Centres and various > departments, which are directly under the control of Mysore University. > > We acknowledge OSS Labs, Bangalore for having given quality, timely and > cost effective service to us > in this matter. Probably ours is the first university library to go mobile > way for OPAC (?). Please have a > look at it and give your feedback, enabling us to improve the service. > > > Regards, > > Dr. I.R.N. Goudar > Visiting professor and Library Adviser > University of Mysore > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20120308/753cc29a/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > lis-fo...@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > -- > Thanks and Regards > > Sandeep Bhavsar > Librarian > Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies > Thane(W) 400601 > MUMBAI. INDIA > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > email : sandeep.bhav...@gmail.com > Mob : 9029 345777 > elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > koha-de...@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha