With mobile devices offering great potential to revolutionise the delivery of library services and content and the way in which people access and interact with them in parallel with social networking, libraries are presented with new opportunities to re-connect with users and open up their collections. “The ‘quick response’ (QR) codes are one of the tools that could help us to improve the relationship between the library and its users.” (Pons et al, 2011) In late July 2011, Highland Libraries were approached by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) on behalf of OCLC and DDC23 to take part in a project to enhance resource discovery and to promote the use of Dewey Decimal Classification in public libraries, utilising new technologies and the multilingual interoperability of the DDC23 summaries. The project takes advantage of the recent translation of the DDC summaries into different languages (OCLC, 2012) including Scottish Gaelic, using mobile smartphone technology and printed ‘Quick Response’ codes to provide a way for users to search the library catalogue by Dewey subject ranges. QR codes were printed onto Non-Fiction shelf headings and publicity along with corresponding bi-lingual Gaelic and English captions for the top hundred Dewey divisions.
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