Presentation at 2012 Ex Libris Users of North America Conference

1.  
Ben Rawlins
Electronic Resources Librarian
Georgetown College

2.  What are QR codes?
o Advantages of QR codes
 Uses Outside of Libraries
 About Georgetown College
 Adding QR codes to the Library Catalog
 Current Use of QR codes at Georgetown College
 Planned Future Uses
 Some Other Library Related Uses
 Conclude

3.  QR, Quick Response, codes are two dimensional barcodes
that can be scanned with a mobile device that has a
camera. Once the code is scanned the device is prompted
to load a webpage, display text, or other data contained in
the code.
 QR codes were first created by Denso-Wave, a Toyota
subsidiary, in 1994 as a way to track manufactured parts.
Denso-Wave holds the patent rights for QR codes, but instead
of exercising them they decided to make the technology
freely available.

4.  Unlike conventional barcodes that can only store
information in a horizontal manner, QR codes can
store information both horizontally and vertically.

5.  Conventional barcodes can typically store
between 20 to 40 characters.
 QR codes can store up to a maximum of 7,089
characters

9.  2,200 NYC Department of Sanitation Trucks Will Feature
NYC Media Quick Response (QR) Codes Linking to a “How
to Recycle” Video

10.  Citizens can scan these codes to see a web view of what's
being built, who is doing the building, and what (if any)
complaints have been filed against the permittee.

13.  Private Liberal Arts College located in
Georgetown, KY
 2010-11 FTE: 1708
 Our network has 870 mobile devices registered, this
does not includes users who use a data plan
exclusively

15. Added a What’ This? Link below the QR code (Green Circle)

18.  To get both features 1 files was edited and one new
file was created
o displayFacets.xsl (edited file)
o local_qrCode.xsl (new file)
• Modeled after Paul Asay’s local_callSearch.xsl file

19.  One file was edited
to get this feature
o displayFacets.xsl

20. Show displayFacets.xsl file

21.  One file edited and
one new file created
for ‘Get Info in a QR
Code’ feature
o displayFacets.xsl
o local_qrCode.xsl (new
file)

22. Show local_qrCode.xsl
Show displayFacets.xsl file

27.  Business Cards

28.  Library Directory Webpage

33.  Ryerson University
o App
• Web view of mobile
website
o Barcode Reader
• ISBN
• QR Code
 Article
published in
Code4Lib
o http://journal.code4lib.org/
articles/5014