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QR Codes Are Here to Stay!
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QR Code to Monroe 2 Orleans BOCES SLS QR Site
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QR Codes, or Quick Response Codes, are a fast and efficient way to deliver information. To access a QR Code, a user must have a Mobile Device with a QR Reader installed on it. Library Applications Accessing Information: - Link to an Online Card Catalog (posting in the stacks)
- Link to a Video Book Trailer (book cover)
- Link to similar reads (display, book cover, shelves...)
- Place on a print magazine for a link to the digital edition
- Link to a listing of recommend subjects (display, shelves...)
- Links for Online Databases (bookmarks, posters...)
- Special collection guides (what they are used for)
- Link to a Web Page (Poster, display...)
- Direct link to a specific iTunes App
Instruction: - Contact information- can send directly to an email or a phone number
- Link to more information about an upcoming program or event
- Place on a WebQuest or Pathfinder to include links to use for research
- Library Scavenger hunt for orientation
- Place on worksheets for student use (quicker then having students type in a full URL)
- Create Posters to hang in the Library for various courses (each one takes to a specific course page)
Communication: - Place on a business card (can contain vCard, or a biography)
- Online evaluation survey (Survey Monkey or School World Forms)
- How to tutorial videos or screencastes
- Place on a name badge that will link to a biography of the person
- Use for contests (website for info, directions...)
- Additional information on a topic
- Link to an InterLibrary Loan form
- Newspaper articles featuring the library (hang up the article with the QR by the entrance/exit)
- Contact information (Phone number, email, text, vCard..)
- Bottom of a document that someone may want a copy of (use Tag My Doc listed below)
Physical Area: - Link to Directions on how to use something (such as a microfiche reader or scanner)
- Link to a Map of the Library (each one can have a You Are Here)
- Link to a virtual tour of the library
Where to place them - Where people are waiting in line
- It would be wrong of me to say a bathroom stall....
- On a Book
- End caps in the stacks
- Handouts
- Assignments
- Brochures
- Book Display
- e-mail signature
- On a bookmark
- In a mural
- On a logo
- On a bulletin board or a display
- On your Website- can scan from a computer!
- t-shirts for an event
- On a bus- people get bored and that may be a fun distraction
- Outside an office door
- Outside a study room- can quickly scan to see who has room signed out and when
Using/Creating QR Codes QR Code Generators QR Code Readers
Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES
School Library System
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