[Eril-l] qr-code dummy blocks for online reference titles?

[Melissa Belvadi]

I don't have such a list, but I don't think it helps, because EDS has a
strong relevance weight factor for length, to avoid flooding top results
with tiny newspaper articles. This has an unfortunate side effect of
downweighting reference sources too.

I'm suprised to hear that Reference Universe is "clunky".  I've had my eye
on it for a couple of years as the solution when the day comes that we can
afford it.  I'm on the verge of hijacking my own thread to ask more about
that!

Melissa

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Roen Janyk <RJanyk at okanagan.bc.ca> wrote:

> Is there a list available that outlines the e-reference titles indexed by
> EDS at the *article* level? If so, I would be very interested in seeing
> it. I believe usage of reference titles would be increased if users found
> relevant articles within EDS, rather than going to a reference title
> directly to find the information.
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> Roën
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> *Roën Janyk, MLIS*
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> Web Services Librarian
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> *Library Department Chair*
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> Okanagan College
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> Kelowna, BC
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> *From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *Linda
> Wobbe
> *Sent:* Monday, November 30, 2015 2:41 PM
> *To:* Melissa Belvadi
> *Cc:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] qr-code dummy blocks for online reference titles?
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> Hi Melissa,
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> QR codes are a clever approach, but I doubt we would make use of them.  It
> is rare that we see anyone other than librarians in the reference stacks,
> so I don't think dummies in the stacks help our users.  We recently
> gathered up a book stack worth of "dummies" and we were grateful to recover
> the space.
>
> I agree that guiding users to reference/handbook content is a real
> problem.  Our EDS Discovery layer doesn't have a reference/handbooks
> filter, and our purchased and subscribed content is scattered among many
> publishers' interfaces. We've tried Reference Universe and Credo Literati,
> and while helpful, they are both clunky.  We do catalog all of our
> electronic reference sources and created a reference / handbooks scope, but
> we are still searching for the perfect solution.
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> ...Linda
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> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> About a year ago, after we bought a big Gale VRL title package, we decided
> to start creating dummy blocks in our reference physical collection, with
> QR codes, to increase the visibility of some of the more expensive/useful
> titles.
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> Ours are pretty minimalist. If you'd like to see a couple of photos, see
> here:
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> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7mGfR_o-CQAYlN0OFV5VFVGSHc&usp=sharing
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> I'd be interested to know if others are doing something like this, and if
> so, if you could share pics of your designs.
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> Relatedly, I was talking with a Credo sales rep just now (we have their
> big academic subscription collection), and when we got to the topic of
> promotional materials, I suggested that they consider making Word templates
> for their titles, designed for us to add our own QR codes (so we can
> include our proxy prefix) and then print and cut&paste for this purpose.  I
> figure anything their marketing people came up with would look much nicer
> than ours.
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> I thought I'd ask folks on this list - if companies like Credo, Gale and
> Oxford did this, would you use them?
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> Melissa Belvadi
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> Collections Librarian
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> University of Prince Edward Island
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> mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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