1. QR codes
Finding articles
• Aim:
• Aware of QR codes and
it’s uses in modern day
life.
• Personal http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/search/
databases/
• Leisure
• Education

2. /
A few QR codes created
http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/search/athens/
http://infoskills.uelconnect.org.uk/
/
http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/libraryandolympics/

3. What is a QR code
• QR codes are quick • Once your phone has
response codes or a this, you are ready to
barcode take a picture of the
• A phone needs to have: codes which will then
• A camera link your phone to a
webpage or any other
• A QR code reader content
application installed.
•

4. Why would anybody want to use a QR
code
• Scanning a QR code and In one Metro newspaper which most
storing or accessing data Tube users will pick up, there were
12 QR codes for:
directly to your phone • Postcode lottery
may be quicker than • Feedback to Metro
writing a url down and • Travel to Poland for the football
games
typing it into your phone’s • Air France travel deals
internet browser later • Vodaphone deals
• Pearson College
• Increasingly QR codes • Villas
can be seen on printed • Yoga classes
• City jobs
newspapers, journals, • Birkbeck University
articles, can of drinks • Clinical trials
• Some lecturers are • Jobsite
• Increasingly it is becoming part of
creating QR codes for normal life and most people don’t carry
their lecture slides laptops or pcs around with them. On
the other hand most of us have

5. How we are/could be using QR codes
• On our Library • Advertise opening hours.
Search, you will find a QR • The Olympics information
code. • Working with lecturers to
• A good number of our embed the library QR
students already use their codes into their
phones to access the programme and module
Library Search handbooks.
• Once scanned, you can • Feedback
save the title, author and • The codes need to add
class number of the book value.
• Ask a librarian • Students will need to be
• E resources tutored in this new way.
• etc

6. Scanning a QR code with your phone
• Most phones should have a QR • Go to the internet and search for
code reader QR code reader just to see what
• If not, comes up.
• You need to install a QR code • Which one you choose may
reader application on your depend on whether you have an
phone. Android or an iPhone
• It must be compatible with your • You may want to also search for
phone. e.g QR code reader for Android or
• Just installing any QR code reader Nokia, etc.
application onto your phone may
mean your phone will not be able
to scan a QR code.
• So when searching for one on the
Internet, make sure it is
compatible with your phone

7. http://www.upcode.mobi/
• I choose the above
because it is
recommended for my
Nokia x6 which is an
Android
• It is free
• My phone has enough
memory to down load
the QR code reader
application

8. Once you are happy with one, note the
URL
• Go to your phone
internet browser
• Type the URL
• Proceed to download
the QR code reader
application

9. Installing QR code reader on your e.g.
Android phone
From your phone’s
Click on Install. App
menu, select Applications

10. As you can see my phone does not
have a QR code reader app.
P1010431.mov
From this Installed app. Page, click on
Options, Click on download
application, proceed to download the

12. Finally a QR code reader app. installed
• This is very
fiddly, however once
you install the
application, you are
ready to go.
• It is important that you
know how much it will
cost you to download
data.
• For me the cost is part
of my monthly
subscription

13. http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
Try creating you own code via this QR-Code
generator

14. Alternatively, we have a QR code creator which came as part of our
Text service which we will be launching soon.
Let me know if you want more information about this.