Comments on: The Library Reloaded: Library Cards, Cont. http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-library-reloaded-library-cards-cont/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: anankaf http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-library-reloaded-library-cards-cont/#comment-5678 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:00:50 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-library-reloaded-library-cards-cont/#comment-5678 With our library app, you can use your phone as your library card. Boopsie will make a picture of your barcode that can be used at check out. Not as cool as the digital transmission of information, but slightly safer (in that it would be harder to steal and use, since you still need a pin number to check out.)

]]> By: Nancy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-library-reloaded-library-cards-cont/#comment-5643 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:09:50 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-library-reloaded-library-cards-cont/#comment-5643 one more reminder that so many of us work in technology challenged environments that are not attuned to their client base. I’m in a community college, where students have a student id card, a library card, and a print card. All of these could be integrated but no we can’t go there. In fact we can’t even get the print card cost to be included in the cost of printing, so we actually take a loss and there is no incentive for students to reload the card, which of course means we use more cards (which we are paying for).

A big issue seems to be a lack of infracstructure (ie bandwidth) and a lack of support to keep it all working. Combined with a lack of leadership to bringing libraries into the 21st century.

The next big thing is the integrated portal (search) in content delivery, but how many places are ready for that. Why can’t people access media holdings like they do e-books (via the catalog with authentication)? We haven’t even converted vhs to dvd.

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