<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Melissa,<br><br></div>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.<br><br>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.<br><br></div>...Linda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Melissa Belvadi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ours are pretty minimalist. If you'd like to see a couple of photos, see here:</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7mGfR_o-CQAYlN0OFV5VFVGSHc&usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7mGfR_o-CQAYlN0OFV5VFVGSHc&usp=sharing</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'd be interested to know if others are doing something like this, and if so, if you could share pics of your designs.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I thought I'd ask folks on this list - if companies like Credo, Gale and Oxford did this, would you use them?</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> <a href="tel:902-566-0581" value="+19025660581" target="_blank">902-566-0581</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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