Cybrary

During the International Conference in Multicultural Learning and Media Literacy in the Modern World, Keiso Katsura presented his work on Cybrary entitled “Creating the opening days and hours display systems for multiple cultural facilities.” In his project, he is exploring a mobile application using Perl/CGI script programming to give real-time information about library in the worlds (the opening and closing hours, the websites, the calendars and events).

This application uses color image files and text that can be changed by date, hour and minute. He said that he was preparing to build applications for both PC and mobile version soon. His Cybrary service is currently only available in Japan.

He explained that he was currently updating all data manually and by himself. Considering large amount of data about the libraries in the world that available and necessity to update it on daily basis, he needs an automatic instead of manual system. With only a manual system, he would not be able to accomplish his design goal, which is to provide up-to-date information about libraries and cultural facilities in different regions and countries.