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

[Linda Wobbe]

Hi Melissa,

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.

...Linda

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Ours are pretty minimalist. If you'd like to see a couple of photos, see
> here:
>
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7mGfR_o-CQAYlN0OFV5VFVGSHc&usp=sharing
>
> I'd be interested to know if others are doing something like this, and if
> so, if you could share pics of your designs.
>
> 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.
>
>
> I thought I'd ask folks on this list - if companies like Credo, Gale and
> Oxford did this, would you use them?
>
>
>
> --
> Melissa Belvadi
> Collections Librarian
> University of Prince Edward Island
> mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
>
>
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Linda Wobbe
Head, Collection Management
Sciences Subject Selector
Saint Mary's College of CA
Library
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