The shared problem with AirPAC and
WorldCat Mobile search solutions is the lack of customization and feature
enhancement. OCLC's WorldCat Mobile was created by teaming up with a service
called Boopsie (www.boopsie.comlhome%). WorldCat Mobile is still in beta and has
some issues that need to be fixed such as a non-intuitive interface and slow response
times. In addition, WorldCat Mobile does not currently offer customized views for
WorldCat Local, it is only compatible with a small set of smartphones, and some
mobile users need to download two applications to their mobile devices: WorldCat
Mobile and Boopsie. However, the search application does offer some useful features
such as citations for every record in a variety of formats (APA, Chicago, Harvard,
MLA, and Turabian) and mapping directions to the nearest WorldCat library
although the user receives no information about call numbers or availability of the
material at the nearest library, and features such as map zooming, panning, and
direction finding were only sporadically functional at the time we tested it.