Augmented Reality in Academic Libraries

he conversation aims to explore makers for augmented reality and how UWC Library makes use of markers for augmented reality to enhance the information retrieval process. The conversation is about the barcode marker and the image marker. The conversation makes use of an example of an international augmented book presentation.  The fourth industrial revolution represents indeed one of the major technological revolutions (De Pace and Sanna, 2018). Augmented Reality (AR) forms part of artificial intelligence. AR has existed for over five decades but augmented reality has become more mainstream over the past few years. Despite the rapid growth of augmented reality applications, markers for augmented reality applications are not well known in library settings. Interest developed when students came with a picture of a book on their cell phones to the reference desk and inquire about the item. Gone are the days of scraps of paper nex...