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Developing a Virtual Tour for UCD Library Niall Watts [email protected] Educational Technology Officer Media Services, UCD IT Services Jenny Collery [email protected] College Liaison Librarian UCD Library

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Developing a Virtual Tour for UCD Library

Niall [email protected]

Educational Technology Officer

Media Services, UCD IT Services

Jenny [email protected]

College Liaison Librarian

UCD Library

I need to read this book for my course…. We do get asked this!

Teaching the Library as Place

What about a place to study?Everything is online, who needs the library?

Do students even read books?

There is more than one floor in the library?

Students don’t use the library.

I need to print I need a laptop or PC

Where can we do our group project?

2,861 students took Peer Mentor Visits (Orientation 2014)

6,000 + new students in UCD every year

Project Team

Melanie Simpson & Jenny Collery (UCD Library)

Vincent Hoban & Niall Watts

(UCD Media/IT Services)

Process Overview

Photography

Stitch Photos & Create Panorama

Add Hotspots

• Import Krpano

• Import PS

• Reduce size

• Merge photos

• Create Tour

Krpano Review:+ Documentation+ Forums+ Code samples

Reflections & Plans

Future:+ Voiceover+ QR Codes+ Hotspots

Calendar Time– 2 months

Time Spent – Media Services

June July August

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Photography & EditingKrpano Research & CodingProject Management & Admin

Person Time– 75 hours approx.

Page Views, New Students Page UCD Library

September 2014 May 2015

Burhanna, K. J., Eschedor Voelker, T. J. and Gedeon, J. A. (2008) 'Virtually the Same: Comparing the Effectiveness of Online Versus In-Person Library Tours', Public Services Quarterly, 4(4), pp. 317-338.

Carr, A., & Ly, P. (2010, April 8). ‘The Library Scavenger Hunt Strikes Back: Teaching Library as Place.’ Paper presented at CARL Conference, Sacramento.

Freeman, G. T., Bennett, S., Demas, S., Frischer, B., Peterson, C. A. and Oliver, K. B. (2005) Library as place: Rethinking roles, rethinking space. Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, DC.

Goswami, S., Agrawal, H., Kumar, A., Saxena, S. C. and Singh, M. (2006) 'Virtual Walkthrough System for Library', DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, 26(1), pp. 3-16.

Towlson, K. (2012) 'Induction Practice at De Montfort University, a Move from a Didactic, Face to Face Model to a Blended, Student Centred Delivery', ALISS Quarterly, 7(2), pp. 3-6.

References

Niall [email protected]

Educational Technology Officer

Media Services, UCD IT Services

Jenny [email protected]

College Liaison Librarian

UCD Library

Questions