> ...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 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI 02918 (t) 401.865.1622 (f) 401.865.2823 IM: rhodylibrarian (AIM/iChat/Yahoo/GoogleTalk Twitter: beatricepulliam http://www.providence.edu/library ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Birkin Diana [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:16 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] 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