Innovation leadership and strategy in the mobile delivery of the digital library challenges and精选.pdfVIP

Mobile delivery at the University of Manchester Library – strategy and innovation Lorraine Beard Head of Digital Technologies and Services University of Manchester Library Outline •  University approach - iManchester •  Library strategy •  Innovation projects - Scarlet project, Eureka and BookedIn •  Personal device support •  Challenges approaches Background to University of Manchester •  Research intensive, Russell Group •  Largest campus based University in the UK •  40K students - 28 UG, 12K PG, of which 9K overseas •  11k staff, over 5k academic and research •  1 billion Estates Master plan •  Organised into 4 Faculties, with 26 schools in total Mission and vision of the University ‘By 2020, The University of Manchester will be one of the top 25 research universities in the world’ Goals: •  World class research •  Outstanding student experience •  Social responsibility The University approach - iManchester 1.  Deliver a core set of mobile web services 2.  Implement governance arrangements for managing the development of mobile content 3.  Produced a technical development framework 4.  Delivered iManchester September 2012 5.  Partnership Library and IT, senior academic lead What did iManchester deliver? • An app for iOS and Android • Used Blackboard Mobile as the development platform • Targeted new students as the key audience • Build back-end database to manage content Technical development framework Toolkit developed to include: •  Development tools •  Branding •  Information about procurement •  Information about data protection. •  Advice on source control and issues tracking •  Provision of code libraries. •  Information about authentication •  App development approval. iManchester usage Over last 12 months: •  Average of 1487 application runs per day and 12