1. QR Codes @ Your Library Rebecca Brown Kansas & Technology Coordinator NNLM – MCR University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, KS

2. 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?

3. Smartphone owners – 35% adults Pew Internet & American Life Project: Smartphone Adoption and Usage. Survey conducted April 26-May 22, 2011. Aaron Smith.

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

5. What about apps? 2/22/20115 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.

6. Feelings

7. What is a QR Code?  Quick Response Code  Developed in Japan in 1994  Track auto parts  It’s an image

8. What is a QR Code? Bar CodeQR Code Open Source MS Tag Proprietary

9. 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

10.  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/

11.  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

12. Make a QR Code  Google – http://goo.gl – Video Video  Kaywa – http://qrcode.kaywa.com  QR Stuff – www.qrstuff.com  Delivr – http://delivr.com  Bit.ly – https://bitly.com

13. QR Structure

14. Make it Pretty http://rasoftwarefactory.com/qr-generator/

15. Pretty

16. 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

17. Link to Online Content

18. Bulletin Board http://tinyurl.com/6y6h68t

19. Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

20. Connect to Library Catalog Anatomy Books Eccles LibraryDykes LibraryJohnson County Public

21. From Texas A & M http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/cannedsearch/cannedsearch.asp

22. Rockhurst University - KCMO

23. Scan this QR Code

24. I have a library question.

25. Tracking Usage  PercentMobile  Goo.gl  Bit.ly  Delivr

26. PercentMobile

27. Google

28. Delivr

29. BeeTagg Text Message I scanned this during your presentation.

30. Thank you! Rebecca Brown rbrown3@kumc.edu