I believe Jim Hahn is working on this at the University of Illinois using
AR via an IMLS Sparks! grant: http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1750 I've
been waiting with bated breath to see the results!

Heather Wilson, MSLS
Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian
Stanley Library, Ferrum College
PO Box 1000
150 Wiley Drive
Ferrum, VA 24088
(540) 365-6939




On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Pulliam, Beatrice
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> > ...Next: a smart phone app that reads books on a shelf and reports what
> the call numbers mean...
>
> ooh, now this would be cool.  This might help combat the glazed eye looks
> we get when we attempt to explain how things are arranged on our shelves.
>
>
> Beatrice R. Pulliam
> Library Commons Librarian for Technology and Access
> Phillips Memorial Library
> Providence College
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> ________________________________________
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> Diana [[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Interested in enhancing call-number browse in
> Millennium catalog
>
> > ...Next: a smart phone app that reads books on a shelf and reports what
> the call numbers mean...
>
> _love_ this idea; thx for kicking off the c4l-hackfest topics!  :)
> ---
> Birkin James Diana
> Programmer, Digital Technologies
> Brown University Library
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>
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > cynthia, I can't help you but I can encourage you -- honestly, the call
> numbers alone (especially in LCC where the notation is not a strict
> hierarchy) are close to useless without the meanings. One might even make
> the meanings more visible than the call numbers themselves (bolder, placed
> first)... Go for it!
> >
> > Next: a smart phone app that reads books on a shelf and reports what the
> call numbers mean. I'd call it "Where the F am I, anyway?"
> >
> > kc
>