55% of undergraduate student respondents own a smartphone. If we wish to
meet our patrons where they are, we must go mobile.
The development of mobile services and resources is made all the more
urgent by the fact that smartphone sales and shipments are starting to outpace
the sales and shipments of personal computers. According to Canalys
estimates, smartphone manufacturers shipped 158.5 million units in the last
quarter of 2011, and PC manufacturers shipped 120.2 million units during
that same time frame which is a growth of 63% from the same quarter in
2010 (“Smart phones overtake client PCs in 2011,” 2012).