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With the launch of DukeMobile 1.1, the Duke University Libraries now offers the most comprehensive university digital image collection specifically formatted for an iPhone or iTouch device. It includes thousands of photos and other artifacts that range from early beer advertisements to materials on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene in the 1960s. Although a growing number of scholarly institutions offer images and other material online, Duke is the first to offer collections that take advantage of the iPhone's design, navigation and other features.
A brief video describing the new gateway to the collections is available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHK3E4N7w6o
The collections are the latest addition to the DukeMobile suite of applications, which has also expanded to include several feeds of university news, along with emergency notifications and IT service alerts.
Duke University Libraries offers mobile users digital materials from 20 collections -- about 32,000 images overall -- covering women's history, early American sheet music, Duke history and other topics. The libraries will add new collections regularly as they become available.
"Making these collections available for the iPhone and similar devices is important not only to extend access to Duke's collections, but also as a milestone in the evolution of academic libraries from traditional print repositories to institutions that embrace new technology for sharing their rich resources with broader audiences," said university librarian Deborah Jakubs. "Duke believes in putting its knowledge in service to society, and we are making a major commitment to reach well beyond our campus by placing our collections literally into people's hands."
In addition to the library collections, DukeMobile's offerings for the iPhone and other mobile devices now include campus news feeds about business, the environment, law, research and other categories, as well as the latest stories from Duke Today and other campus sources. The news section appears under an icon that will turn red to notify users about campus emergencies or IT alerts.
"This new application consolidates our news and alerts to be more useful for students, alumni, parents or anyone else with an interest in Duke," said Michael J. Schoenfeld, the university's vice president for public affairs and government relations. "We want to make it as easy as possible to find the latest information about Duke, and to make the most of the iPhone's rich interactive capabilities."
The DukeMobile Version 1.1 suite of apps also includes an expanded schedule of courses and improvements to the campus map.
Duke's Office of Information Technology and Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations have developed DukeMobile in partnership with TerriblyClever Design, a California-based web services company. Users of iPhones and iPod Touch devices can install DukeMobile by visiting the DukeMobile page in the iTunes App Store, at:
http://tinyurl.com/dnjq9o.
Users of other wireless devices with browsers compatible with WAP 1.0 and 2.0 protocols should point their browsers to:
http://m.duke.edu
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