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QR Codes @ Your Library

Rebecca Brown

Kansas & Technology Coordinator

NNLM – MCR

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, KS

So Many Questions

What is a smartphone? Who uses a smartphone and for what? What are QR Codes? How do they work? How do you make a QR Code? How can a library use QR Codes? Can we track their usage?

Smartphone owners – 35% adults

Pew Internet & American Life Project: Smartphone Adoption and Usage. Survey conducted April 26-May 22, 2011. Aaron Smith.

Smartphone / Internet Use

Pew Internet & American Life Project: Smartphone Adoption and Usage. Survey conducted April 26-May 22, 2011. Aaron Smith.

What about apps?

2/22/2011 5

Just two-thirds of this group actually uses the apps on their phone

App User Profile:• Male• Young• Well educated/affluent

Computers in Libraries 2011. Lee Rainie. Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Feelings

What is a QR Code?

Quick Response Code Developed in Japan in 1994 Track auto parts It’s an image

What is a QR Code?

Bar Code QR CodeOpen Source

MS TagProprietary

How Does it Work?

You need a Smartphone– Android, iPhone, Blackberry– With a camera (auto focus)– And a data plan

You need a QR Reader App You need a QR Code

Barcode Scanner Barcodes BeeTagg i-nigma NeoReader QR App QR Scanner ScanLife

KAYWA Reader Nokia Reader Lynkee Reader UpCode QuickMark SnapMaze MobileTag QRReader

QR Readers

www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code-software/

Website URL Telephone Number SMS Message Email Address Email Message Contact Details (VCARD)

Event (VCALENDAR)

Google Maps Location Wifi Login (Android Only)

Social Media iTunes Link YouTube Video

QR Input Options

www.qrstuff.com

Make a QR Code

Google– http://goo.gl– Video

Kaywa– http://qrcode.kaywa.com

QR Stuff– www.qrstuff.com

Delivr– http://delivr.com

Bit.ly– https://bitly.com

QR Structure

Make it Pretty

http://rasoftwarefactory.com/qr-generator/

Pretty

QR Codes @ Your Library

Promotions Scavenger Hunts, library tours Directions Link to library catalog collection Ask a Librarian Connect to Online Journal Content Library Hours, Contact Information Training, tutorials Any other ideas?

http://tinyurl.com/66a9zuq

Link to Online Content

Bulletin Board

http://tinyurl.com/6y6h68t

Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

Connect to Library Catalog

Anatomy Books

Eccles LibraryDykes Library Johnson County Public

From Texas A & M

http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/cannedsearch/cannedsearch.asp

Rockhurst University - KCMO

Scan this QR Code

Scan this QR Code

I have a library question.

Tracking Usage

PercentMobile Goo.gl Bit.ly Delivr

PercentMobile

Google

Delivr

BeeTagg Text Message

I scanned this during your presentation.

Thank you!

Rebecca Brown rbrown3@kumc.edu