Through twine.com, I recently learned about Zoomii (http://zoomii.com). Zoomii allows you to browse books online, much as you would in a "brick and mortar" bookstore. Books are organized in categories, such as bestsellers, business, and so on. You can see the covers of the books, which for me, is what browsing is all about. I think it's a cool idea, but of course presents challenges for people with visual impairments. The creator of Zoomii, Chris Thiessen, says, "Zoomii is my attempt to bring online as much of the real bookstore experience as possible."
So now I'm wondering, could libraries do this same thing with their collections? (Or is your library already doing this?)
Could it benefit our patrons? What do you all think?
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- I am an Independent Library & Information Consultant, with a focus on disability and older adult related issues. I have a master's degree in Library/Information Science. I started this blog to help make people more aware of resources available for older adults and those with disabilities, as well as to promote the free Talking Books program by the Library of Congress! Want to contact me? You can reach me at TalkingBooksLibrarian at gmail.com (take out the spaces and replace the "at" with "@").
1 comments:
I think there are some possibilities to do different things. We might need to use some different tools to achieve something similar. There are ways with certain library systems to do different things with the catalog that would be similar.
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