M-Library. A New Platform to Provide Mobile-Services of Libraries

Nowadays, most of libraries are computerized, and moreover they have available for users their basicservices through the Web. Recent studies have concluded that 40% of people have an Internet connection, and therefore, these basic-services of libraries would be available to those people from where they are connected. If we consider that 100% of users usually use mobile phones, if these services could be available through mobile devices, then the services would be available to any user at any time and from any location. In this paper we expose the architecture of a new platform developed to provide these basic-services of a library over mobile devices. Besides we explain the services of mobile devices in which they are based on; finally we explain the technology used to develop the platform.