Ever found yourself groping for pen and paper to copy down long strings of decimal numbers while looking something up in the library?

The University Library, already a leader in providing students with mobile services regarding loans and returns, has put an end to such inconvenience.
The Library recently adopted a mobile messaging service which sends the call numbers for books and other materials directly from the library website to students’ mobile phones. Over 10,000 call numbers every month are sent to the users’ very fingertips through this convenient addition to our library system.   

MMS(Multimedia Messaging System), the system implemented by this service, allows for transmission of various forms of data including video and audio, and can hold up to 2,000 bytes of text.
A student at SNU proposed the mobile service as an idea to make it easier to locate books by call number in the library, and it was a successful one. The service is available from the search results page of the University Library, and is free of charge.

To try out this service, connect to the University Library website (http://library.snu.ac.kr/Eng/index.jsp), do a search on the book of your choice, and click on the title to reach the details page.

Look under “Circulation Status”, and you will see a mobile icon() in the ‘Availiability’ column. Click on the icon, enter your mobile phone number (without hyphens) and the call number information will be sent to you in a matter of seconds.
 
April 2nd, 2008
SNU PR Office
Translated by Yeajung Park