[Koha] Searching for books with cell phones

[Chadwick, John, DCA]

Interesting question. We are in the process of loading our records into
what will become our first production system. I am not ready to
implement anything yet, but the reality is that more people will be
using library systems on their cell phones. 

 

I know that Worldcat from OCLC will tell you where to find books at
nearby libraries, but that is a function of a user profile as opposed to
a GPS.

 

It would be good to start thinking about Koha functionality as an app on
your cell phone.

 

Just some random thoughts this morning.

 

John Chadwick

New Mexico State Library

John.Chadwick at state.nm.us 

 

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[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Pablo A. Bianchi
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:23 PM
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Subject: [Koha] Searching for books with cell phones

 

I was looking at this article about Koha on Android
<http://www.biblibre.com/content/koha-android?utm_source=feedburner&utm_
medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BiblibreBlog+%28BibLibre+blog%29>
(using a barcode reader
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode_reader#Camera-Based_Readers>
application).


Some cell apps like Point & Find <http://pointandfind.nokia.com/>  (for
Nokia) or Snap & Tell <http://www.snaptell.com/>  (for iPhone) can read
any book cover or ISBN barcode and automatically search for it on Amazon
and other stores (even I hear that also, if you have GPS, give you some
address of stores where near you where you can buy it).

I wonder if someone tried to add the URL of a Koha OPAC to the list of
places where this apps search for books, or if exist an application to
search which libraries (instead of stores) near my location
<http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2009-November/010390.html>
have the searched material (or at least search on a given OPAC).

Cheers,
--
Pablo

 

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