Jennifer Howard

Jennifer Howard

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“Shelving Made Easy (or Easier)”

April 8, 2011

A Miami University computer-science professor has created an augmented-reality app that allows library workers to scan a shelf’s worth of books and quickly figure out which ones are misshelved. Will it save enough time and drudgery to catch on?

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