Augmented Reality & Mobile Library Services/

Interactive Session

/ Sarah Houghton-Jan

Learn about the San José Public Library's historical walking tours using augmented reality, mobile technology, and HTML5. Get a crash course on augmented reality and hear about the library's project, technologies used, and challenges faced.

Sarah Houghton-Jan is a librarian, author, and technology futurist who currently works as the Assistant Director for the San José Public Library. She was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter.  She is the author of the book "Technology Training in Libraries" and authors the award-winning blog "Librarian in Black".  Find out more at this link

 

Documentation from the workshop

Get Sarahs slides

And Maces mindmap is here: http://www.mindmeister.com/102592990/next-library-aarhus-a-session-about-augmented-reality-and-mobile-services

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COMMENTS/

Jane Kunze's picture
22 June, 2011 - 12:33 - Jane Kunze says:

The workshop started of with a verbal spanking from Mace Ojala, who called library mobile services so far for humiliating, because they just are webpages available in a mobile format.
He suggested that we instead:
-Start creating useful services that can help people in their lives
-Designing from a mobile perspective (se for instance www.walkingpaper.org)

Then Sarah Houghton-Black started her presentation by introducing the concept of augmented reality, which is basically putting a digital layer of data over the physical world. She introduced a number of commercial examples like Layer. She also mentioned a few in a library setting like Snap & Go at Contra Costa County Library.

Finally she presented the project she herself had initiated and worked on at San José Public Library - Scan José, which is a mobile web application offering walking tours of the city of San Jose.

She ended her presentation with some societal issues in regards to AR:
- Connectivity ubiquity
- Openness and transparency
- Social vs. isolationists
- Privacy consensus

After that there was a general discussion of topics like:

Strategy – should libraries build their own services or embed our services into those of others

Spam – what is spam really? Is it spam when a library uses facebook or twitter as tools for advertising? Or maybe its serendipity?

Do we do these kind of services just because we can or because our users need them?

Libraries should never do the techno-lust thing!

Sidsel Bech-Petersen's picture
20 June, 2011 - 12:53 - Sidsel Bech-Petersen says:

Åke suggest that we should check-out: hack4europe:
http://www.europeana-libraries.eu/web/api/hackathons

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