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

[Roen Janyk]

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.

Roën


Roën Janyk, MLIS
Web Services Librarian
Library Department Chair
Okanagan College
Kelowna, BC
(250) 762-5445 x.4660 | L101A
rjanyk at okanagan.bc.ca<mailto:rjanyk at okanagan.bc.ca>


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?

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<mailto: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?



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Melissa Belvadi
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University of Prince Edward Island
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