Point and Shoot: Extending Your Reach with QR Codes

Abstract

In the past few years, two-dimensional barcodes, including QR codes, have become commonplace. Businesses have embraced them as an easy way to provide information, including links to websites, videos, and contact information, to customers. Users can easily capture QR codes with a camera-equipped smartphone and a low-cost or free code-reader app. There are many easy and free resources for creating QR codes. Librarians are experimenting with creative ways to use QR codes to reach out to patrons.

KEYWORDS:

• matrix barcode
• mobile tagging
• QR codes
• quick response codes
• smartphones
• two-dimensional barcodes

Notes

Comments and suggestions should be sent to the Column Editor: Nancy R. Glassman ([email protected]).

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Notes on contributors

Karen Sorensen

Karen Sorensen, MLS ([email protected]) is Reference Librarian, D. Samuel Gottesman Library, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461.

Nancy R. Glassman

Nancy R. Glassman, MLS, AHIP ([email protected]) is Systems Librarian, D. Samuel Gottesman Library, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461.