[Koha] Idea for development - library floor plan on OPAC

[Lori Ayre]

Agnes,

The idea of integrating a map of the library plus the shelf location is
excellent.  It would be particularly useful for people searching the catalog
with their PDA so they could carry the map around with them.

And I see a future RFID integration component where the PDA can use RFID
tags embedded on shelves to help navigate them right to the item they want.

When I think about RFID, these are the kinds of possiblities I see that make
it worthwhile which is why dumbing them down so they have nothing on them
but a bar code number (as a way to ensure patron privacy) is the wrong
direction!  We could do some pretty incredible stuff if we really thought
broadly about how to use a read/write memory space on each our items.  That
would also require the tags to be generically readable for our library PDA
applications.

Getting back to the library map + shelf location idea...that reminds me of
an idea we came up with with King County (when we were developing their
system requirements) for dynamically tracking information about items that
are on the shelf to see things like a) are our shelves too full?  b) is our
balance of materials right for our collection development goals?  c) what is
hot or not  (based on what's moving and what's not).  My image was of a
dashboard where you could watch movement of materials live.

Lori Ayre

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm at hanover.ca> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer
> can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on
> shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where
> the item should be.
> For instance, if the person looked up Pride & Prejudice, and the library
> has a copy in their Classics section, on the lower floor at the end of
> the Fiction shelving, the plan would show the shelving layout with the
> appropriate shelf area highlighted.
>
> This would of course require some work from each library to create the
> shelf layout, and then link it to categories or call number ranges in Koha.
>
> Just an idea, would this be hard to do, and is there interest out there?
>
> Agnes
>
> --
>
> Agnes Rivers-Moore
> Assistant Librarian
> Hanover Public Library
>
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