can qr codes help our library users find needed resources?
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Kathy Szigeti, University of Waterloo A QR Code is a specific barcode readable by camera phones. They can be used to display text to the user, to add a vCard contact to the user’s device, to open a URI or to compose an email or text message. QR codes can provide useful content at the time of need. They are being implemented by businesses and libraries. I will show how libraries use the code and specifically a pilot project that we at uWaterloo would like to implement. Here is why I think this is innovative: The “ACRL 2010 top ten trends in academic libraries” predicts “explosive growth of mobile devices and applications will drive new services.” The widespread use of QR codes could surely be a part of that. The blockquote is from C&RL News. QR codes and academic libraries: Reaching mobile users. By Robin Ashford. http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/526.full. The quote within it is from: ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee, “2010 top ten trends in academic libraries: A review of the current literature,” C&RL News 71, 6 (June 2010): 286–92.TRANSCRIPT
QR Codes & Libraries
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• (Billboard) http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/24/samsung-cameraphones-to-sport-scanbuy-2d-barcode-solution/
• (T-Shirt) http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinvented/464053598• http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/commerce/2088.html
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Tweedledum and TweedledeeAgreed to have a battle;For Tweedledum said TweedledeeHad spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,As black as a tar-barrel;Which frightened both the heros so,They quite forgot their quarrel.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/1585822/business-card-just-scan-my-qr-code
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http://inbriefonline.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/do-you-know-the-qr-code-for-research-help/
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http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2011/2/16/qr-codes-connect-wvu-students-with-library-resources /
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Thank you!
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