If you read this blog you know I think mobile devices are going to play a big part in your library future. This is exactly the kind of functionality that I have been envisaging.
You search their databases, click on the mobile phone icon next to the record, up pops a screen where you can scan a QR code or type in your phone number,
and a link to the video download appears on your phone. Hit play. They have managed to design this so that it is about as easy as viewing a video on the Onion Network. Brilliant.
Why would students or faculty want to do this? Maybe the student has been asked to bring an example to class or wants to show an example of a particular genre to a study group, or a topic comes up during office hours (in the Bookmark Cafe) and the instructor was to show the student an example.
Give it a try, but be warned we have a limit of 3 simultaneous users on these two databases at Rollins.
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