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Beyond Foursquare: Library Treks With Scvngr, Amy E. Vecchione, Margaret Mellinger
Beyond Foursquare: Library Treks With Scvngr, Amy E. Vecchione, Margaret Mellinger
Amy E. Vecchione
SCVNGR is a game-based geolocation application where users can earn points or gain rewards by completing challenges and treks. Builders design questions that involve text based answers (open ended or multiple choice), QR codes, or photo challenges. Librarians at Boise State University and Oregon State University have built treks and challenges using SCVNGR for library orientations and instruction. They have found SCVNGR a better environment than Foursquare for these purposes. With SCVNGR, students can participate in the challenges and treks using not only their smart phones and mobile devices, but also via text-messaging and laptops. Librarians can easily create multiple …
Reference Is Neither Here Nor There: Connecting Through Sms, Amy E. Vecchione, Margie Ruppel
Reference Is Neither Here Nor There: Connecting Through Sms, Amy E. Vecchione, Margie Ruppel
Amy E. Vecchione
Have you ever wondered what your patrons think about SMS reference service? Do you wonder what other libraries are doing with SMS? Or what types of questions you would be asked through SMS reference service? Don’t try to reinvent the wheel! Join Boise State University librarians Amy Vecchione and Margie Ruppel to learn the results from their recently conducted national and local surveys on SMS reference. By attending this session participants will learn the most common types of questions asked through SMS, ways to market this service, best practices for answering SMS reference questions, and patrons’ perceptions of this new …
Texting: Leveraging The Statistics To Your Advantage, Amy E. Vecchione
Texting: Leveraging The Statistics To Your Advantage, Amy E. Vecchione
Amy E. Vecchione
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