This document discusses emerging technologies for libraries, including mobile apps, QR codes, ePrint for printing from any device, downloadable music services like Freegal, media vending machines, scanning documents, and using Pinterest. It provides details on the mobile apps Boopsie and LibraryAnywhere, examples of QR code uses by libraries, how ePrint works, setting up a Freegal account, and the MediaSurfer iPad dispenser. Recent developments discussed include the Department of Justice investigation into ebook publishers and increased ebook prices.
2. What we’ll cover today
Mobile apps for your library
QR codes
ePrint
Downloadable music
Vending machines for library materials
Scanners
Ebook update
3. Why you need a mobile
strategy for your library
50% of U.S. adult cell phone owners now
have apps on their phones
9 out of 10 students access the internet
via their phone
There are apps now for most everything
(banking, shopping, travel, entertainment)
– your patrons expect you to have one
4. Mobile Library Phone Apps
Boopsie v. LibraryAnywhere
Both apps allow your users
to:
Search catalog, renew
items, place holds
Geo-location helps users find
your library
Display events, Ask-a-Librarian
information
Links out to other
websites, with some
integrated features
5. Why Boopsie?
Founded in 2006 in
Silicon Valley
ALA’s mobile
partner
Worldwide
presence
Works with most
devices, good
integration
6. Why Boopsie?
Multiple library services bundled in one app
Library hours, library locator with map
Library catalog
My Account
Calendar / events
Book reviews (Syndetics), reading lists
Ask a librarian
Social networking
BookLook
OverDrive (integrated)
BookCheck (additional cost)
8. QR Codes: What are they?
QR: Quick response
Matrix barcode
First designed by automotive industry in
1994
Common now in advertising – company’s
website embedded
Creative library uses!
9. QR Codes: Popular apps
NeoReader
(iPhone)
Optiscan (iPhone)
ScanLife (Android)
QuickMark
(Android, iPhone)
10. QR Codes: Library
Applications
Ryerson University Library: library catalog
Contra Costa County Library: market
downloadable audiobooks
George Fox University Libraries: on DVDs
and audiobooks to point users to video
trailers
Southwest Iowa Library Service:
readalikes for popular authors
11. ePrint: What is it?
Free service from HP that enables printing
from any device connected to the web
to any HP ePrint web-connected product
You can use your computer to send print
jobs if you have the HP ePrint mobile
driver installed
You can email print jobs if you use the HP
ePrint product’s email address
12. Freegal: downloadable music
Over 100 genres of
music, all from Sony
Users are given a
weekly allotment of
downloads
Login with library card
number and PIN
All music is in the MP3
format with no DRM
Works on both PCs and
Macs
13. MediaSurfer: iPad dispenser
Created by Tech
Logic
Kiosk that
automatically
lends iPads and
other mobile
devices to library
patrons
14. Pinterest
Online pinboard
Visual collections
Available for free
on the Internet
All the rage at PLA
Used by Thompson
Public Library
15. Pinterest
• Bookmarklets
• PinIt buttons
• User boards
• Maybe some
copyright issues?
16. Scan Everything
Patron stations
Staff projects
What’s hiding in
your collection?
DPLA scanabego
18. Recent developments
DoJ investigation into
Apple, 5 of the big six
Penguin breaks with
Overdrive, Random
increases prices
AAP meeting –
publishers want
“friction”
Children’s publishing
is getting a lot more
attention
