m-biblio

The following people are involved with this project:

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  Mr Mike Jones Senior Systems Developer Tel. (0117) 4550892 mike.a.jones@bristol.ac.uk

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  Mr Dave Kilbey Third Party Organisation Tel. (0117) 954 6893 d.kilbey@bristol.ac.uk

More about this project

We propose to enhance the learning and research activities of the University of Bristol’s academic community by developing a mobile application that can record and organise references to books, journals and other resources. These references can be added actively by scanning barcodes and QR codes, or passively by automatically recording RFID tags in items being used for study and research. With permission of the user, the application will submit anonymous usage data to their library. This innovation will provide library staff with a valuable set of user-derived usage statistics. It will be able to track which resources were used, and where. The library will therefore be given a rich seam of usage patterns, including data about library items that are often confined to branches such as periodicals, journals and reference books. The application will be made available to the wider FE/HE community for use in other institutions.

Project dates

01 Nov 2011

For further information, see the project's website:

mbiblio.ilrt.bris.ac.uk

Project funder:

JISC

Project collaborator(s):

Library