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Jason Coleman's portion of the Technology & Libraries Lightning Round-up sponsored by the ACRL-ULS Technology & Libraries Committee.Jason's e-mail is [email protected]TRANSCRIPT
Technology & Libraries Lightning Round-up
Presented by the ACRL-ULS Technology & Libraries Committee
Jason ColemanUndergraduate & Community Services Librarian
K-State LibrariesKansas State University
Photo credit: Jenny Levine
“Layers of Reality: Extending Library Services through QR Codes and Augmented Reality”
http://connect.ala.org/node/120165
Discussion forum sponsored by RUSA MARS’ (Emerging Technologies in Reference ) Hot Topics in Electronic Reference Discussion Group
Photo credit: ALA Photo credit: ALA
Hot Topics Panelists
Benjamin Rawlins [email protected] Kentucky State University
Danielle Kane [email protected] University of California, Irvine
Caroline Sinkinson [email protected]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Nora Dimmock [email protected] University of Rochester
QR Code Uses
Place them in OPAC to encode text for bibliographic information about a book
A record from Kentucky State University’s Library Catalog
More QR Code Uses
• On staff directory to facilitate rapid addition of contact information to a phone. (Rawlins)
•On elevator signs to link to mobile site (Kane)
•On range end signs to link to LibGuides (Kane)
•In stacks to link to ebooks (Kane)
•Near equipment to link to instructional videos (Sinkinson)
•In elevators and near stairways to link to maps (Sinkinson)
•On t-shirts (Dimmock)
•On back of business cards (Dimmock)
“Embedded by Hashtag: Using Twitter for Real-Time Reference and Instruction”
Discussion forum sponsored by RUSA MARS’ Virtual Reference Discussion Group
Ellen FilgoE-Learning LibrarianBaylor [email protected] Twitter: @efilgo
Integrating into Gardner Campbell’s Introduction to New Media Studies class
Discussion forum sponsored by RUSA MARS’ Virtual Reference Discussion Group
http://courseblogs.gardnercampbell.net/librarianellen/2010/09/02/what-can-your-librarian-do-for-you/
A slice of the twittersphere
LITA’s Mobile Computing Interest Group Meeting
Presentations:
1. A Rapid Ethnographic Study of the iPAD on a Campus Bus. Jim Hahn, University of Illinois. [email protected]
2. Putting the Fun Back in Mobile Websites: Launching an OS Book Recommender. Evviva Weinraub & Hannah Rempel, Oregon State University. [email protected], [email protected]
3. Creating a Mobile Site with Zero Budget. Tiffini Travis, California State University, Long Beach
Mobile Ideas
• Libraries should develop resources to meet students contextualized needs, e.g., place dining hall menu on mobile site (Hahn)
• Libraries should develop mobile tools that save time and that are fast, easy, and fun. Ideally, they would also be location sensitive (OSU)
• E.g., Beaver Tracks (historical walking tour with photos from archives)
More Mobile Ideas
• Use mobile phone’s barcode readers to scan books to expedite reshelving (Tod Colegrove, UNR)
• Use an iPAD as an “away from the desk” sign. Provide a button on the iPAD to summon help (Tod Colegrove, UNR)
• University of Nevada Reno’s Tod Colegrove is planning an Apps for Libraries competition at his university.
“Assessment and Evaluation of Virtual Reference”
Discussion forum sponsored by two committees of RUSA MARS: (1)Management of Electronic Reference Services; (2) Public Libraries
Highlights
• Almost all present are using libraryh3lp or Meebo
• There was abundant praise for libraryh3lp:
•Can monitor SMS and chat in same interface.
•Multiple librarians can monitor incoming traffic simultaneously
•Librarians can transfer chats, send files, and e-mail transcripts
•Competitively priced
• Many are using Jing to create and share screencasts and screenshots