Abstract
As patrons increasingly rely on mobile applications and responsive websites to access information, it has become imperative that libraries accommodate these needs. Although building these resources in-house may seem too expensive, time-consuming, and require outsourcing, this paper showcases how it can be achieved on a small scale using existing staff, innovative funding resources, and affordable training.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 79-87 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 3 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019, Published with license by Taylor & Francis. © 2019, © Rebecca J. Morgan, Tiffney A. Gipson, and Lauren E. Robinson.
Funding
Development teams need to be creative when searching for outside funding. National, state, and local organizations should be investigated even if they do not typically provide grants or awards. Given that national or regional organizations tend to provide grants for large-scale projects, approaching local or state organizations was deemed more fruitful by the authors because of the small-scale nature of the KRDS project. The development of KRDS has been fully funded by the Kentucky Medical Library Association (KMLA) despite the fact that KMLA has never supported research or technology development projects in the past.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Kentucky Medical Library Association |
Keywords
- Mobile applications
- app design
- mobile apps
- mobile technologies
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Library and Information Sciences