There is a great presentation on Educause about the recently deployed, optimized-for-mobile version of some NCSU Library services. Key takeaways for me included:

  • Reminder of when to develop native (platform-specific) applications vs. use your web expertise for the mobile web (hey, if you’re not using the accelerometer to shuffle your catalog, maybe you don’t need an app for that!)
  • My favorite: graceful degradation for 3 tiers of devices building on the MIT Mobile Web Open Source Project

3 tiers of devices

Now if we can only get access to all of our data…