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Library on Wheels – Blogging Gold from Char Booth

Please do not miss:

http://infomational.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/project-curve-part-five-library-on-wheels/

Just a snippet demonstrates Char Booth’s evidence-based, grounded approach to library outreach and technology:

the mobile shift: not exactly news

Now, down to project business. Mobile platforms and services have become one of the most handily bandied-about concepts in libraryland over the last few years, and for very good reason. [...]

“Why the QR Code is Failing”

http://www.walkingpaper.org/4229/

Aaron Schmidt shares a quote http://www.imediaconnection.com/article_full.aspx?id=30267 by way of John Gruber:

People will not adopt a technical solution that serves to replace a manual task, if that solution is less efficient than the manual task it replaces. How could we think that QR codes for marketing would work any better than CueCat? Did we not [...]

The Biep Is On!

Gerard Bierens writes:

I noticed the qr code shirt, nice. Look at what we did to launch our new searchengine: http://www.youtube.com/fontyslibrary

This is the Creepy, Super Cool Future of Smartphones & Social Networks

Viewdle – Photo and Video Face Tagging from Viewdle on Vimeo.

Scanning Library Cards on Smartphones from the Swiss Army Librarian

Don’t miss:

http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/08/scanning-library-cards-on-smartphones/

Patrons also use these apps for their library card numbers, and some libraries aren’t sure how to handle the library-card-on-smartphone situation. It hasn’t really come up in my library, but I know our traditional scanners won’t read barcodes off a smartphone screen. So, I thought I’d do some research to find out [...]

Kista Idea Lab Mobile Music Walk

The bold emphasis is mine:

A World Music Walk in the multilingual, multitalented and multitechnological Kista

Kista is like no other place – share a multi-special experience with us, where the mobile technology opens doors to the world music!

What? Join us on a fascinating journey where the world’s musical diversity meets the technical innovation [...]