Awesome “Augmented Reality App” could save Librarians HOURS of mind-numbing shelf reading. Check out this description and a neat demonstration video of this nifty  Shelf reading app at the blog “Read Write Web.”

If you work in a Library, you’re only too familiar with the drudgery of shelf reading. That’s the process of verifying that all the books on a shelf are in the right order, based on their call numbers.

Miami University’s Augmented Reality Research Group (MU ARRG), led by Professor Bo Brinkman, has developed an Android app that could save librarians a lot of time and hassle. Using the Android’s camera, the app “reads” a bookshelf, and with an AR overlay, quickly flags those books that are misplaced. It will also point to the correct place on the bookshelf so the book can easily be re-shelved correctly.