id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-1913 Pendell, Kimberly D.; Bowman, Michael S. Usability Study of a Library's Mobile Website: An Example from Portland State University 2012-06-12 18 .pdf application/pdf 6716 346 50 The Library Success wiki, which tracks libraries with mobile websites, shows an 66 percent increase in the number of academic libraries in the United States and Canada with mobile websites from August 2010 to August 2011.3 We reviewed articles about mobile websites in the professional library science literature and found that mobile website usability testing is only briefly mentioned. The 2010 survey also showed that an additional 11.3 percent of students intended to purchase an Internet-capable handheld device within the next year.2 In this environment academic libraries have been scrambling to address the proliferation of student owned mobile devices, thus the number of mobile library websites is growing. cache/ital-1913.pdf txt/ital-1913.txt