Aplicativos para dispositivos móveis e seu uso em bibliotecas: uma visão das experiências em âmbito internacional

Abstract

The research of mobile applications performed in this work presents an analysis of products and services offered by international and national libraries. The main objective to present the mobile applications for libraries, considering the products and services offered to users, in order to present a technological feature that is already used by libraries worldwide . This work addresses the technological development within the library to explain the use of mobile applications , through a literature search and application oriented library. Research is exploratory and descriptive , with a view to enhancing and clearly display the importance that mobile applications can have for the library , making lifting qualitative way to show the types of services offered by libraries internationally. An analysis was developed presenting the main services present in applications of libraries . A total of twenty applications were assessed, fourteen international and six national , where you can check the difference of what is offered by international libraries and Brazil. Points to the importance of accession by the libraries to certain technologies in Brazil , especially for mobile applications, which a few years ago are used by libraries abroad and many successfully.