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<div>I agree with Linda re: dummy blocks… no one is visiting our print reference collection so it wouldn’t do us much good to do QR codes there. And the odds that someone actually using the print collection would understand what a QR code is and/ or want to
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<div>I feel like Summon Discovery does a pretty good job of leading people to e-reference content (and at the article level). And users can limit to just reference with the reference facet (we renamed our facet “encyclopedias” after usability testing, even
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>> on behalf of Linda Wobbe <<a href="mailto:lwobbe@stmarys-ca.edu">lwobbe@stmarys-ca.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:41 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Melissa Belvadi <<a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Eril-l] qr-code dummy blocks for online reference titles?<br>
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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"
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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>
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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.</div>
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Ours are pretty minimalist. If you'd like to see a couple of photos, see here:</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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