What is it about?

An app that uses textual content from the assignment sheet to suggest relevant library resources of which students may not be aware.

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Why is it important?

Mobile Optical Character Recognition (OCR) apps are helpful for undergraduate students searching known titles of books, general subject areas or searching for help guide content developed by the library.

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This study contributes a new area of application development for libraries, with research methods that are useful for other mobile development studies.

Jim Hahn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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This page is a summary of: Undergraduate research support with optical character recognition apps, Reference Services Review, June 2014, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/rsr-09-2013-0045.
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