[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Android application (was: GSOC-2011 Project Ideas Discussion)

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

If users could grab a book and use their library app on their smart phone to
check themselves out...that would be cool.

Or what about adding items to your library account wish list or book bag?

If could read the bar code and end up with an ISBN number, that opens up
lots of possibilities for finding online resources that could be helpful
(buy the book, find the book in another library, get an ebook version).

Lori


> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

All of this that raises the more general question: what would the use
> cases be for using the camera on your phone to scan the barcode of an item
> you have in hand? Perhaps as a way of adding reference-only items to your
> "items used" history list so you can find it more readily next time, or jump
> from the citation to an online resource or alternate
> location at some point in the future?
>



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