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024 7 |a 10.1108/RSR-09-2013-0045  |2 doi 
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045 2 |b d20140401  |b d20140630 
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100 1 |a Hahn, Jim 
245 1 |a Undergraduate research support with optical character recognition apps 
260 |b Emerald Group Publishing Limited  |c 2014 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to report results of a formative usability study that investigated first-year student use of an optical character recognition (OCR) mobile application (app) designed to help students find resources for course assignments. The app uses textual content from the assignment sheet to suggest relevant library resources of which students may not be aware. Design/methodology/approach - Formative evaluation data are collected to inform the production level version of the mobile application and to understand student use models and requirements for OCR software in mobile applications. Findings - Mobile 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. The results section details how student feedback shaped the next iteration of the app for integration as a Minrva module. Research limitations/implications - This usability paper is not a large-scale quantitative study, but seeks to provide deep qualitative research data for the specific mobile interface studied, the Text-shot prototype. Practical implications - The OCR application is designed to help students learn about availability of library resources based on scanning (e.g. taking a picture, or "Text-shot") of an assignment sheet, a course syllabus or other course-related handouts. Originality/value - This study contributes a new area of application development for libraries, with research methods that are useful for other mobile development studies. 
610 4 |a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
651 4 |a Illinois 
651 4 |a United States--US 
653 |a Software 
653 |a Librarians 
653 |a Design 
653 |a OCR 
653 |a Higher education 
653 |a Research & development--R&D 
653 |a Academic libraries 
653 |a Library collections 
653 |a Library resources 
653 |a Learning 
653 |a Books 
653 |a Application programming interface 
653 |a Computer science 
653 |a Graduate students 
653 |a Semantics 
653 |a Access to information 
653 |a Library management 
653 |a Library of Congress Subject Headings 
653 |a Literature reviews 
653 |a Scholarly communication 
653 |a Libraries 
653 |a Applications programs 
653 |a Optical character recognition 
653 |a Mobile computing 
653 |a Students 
653 |a Qualitative analysis 
653 |a Iterative methods 
653 |a Searching 
653 |a Ideograph recognition 
653 |a Development studies 
653 |a Quantitative analysis 
653 |a Prototypes 
653 |a Qualitative research 
653 |a College students 
653 |a Research methodology 
653 |a Assignment 
653 |a Feedback 
653 |a Undergraduate students 
653 |a Application 
653 |a Personality 
653 |a Acknowledgment 
653 |a Resources 
653 |a Formative evaluation 
773 0 |t Reference Services Review  |g vol. 42, no. 2 (2014), p. 336-350 
786 0 |d ProQuest  |t Library Science Database 
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