University of Kentucky Adds QR Codes to OPAC Records
You’ll now find a QR code on the right side of each record in the InfoKat database.
Users can simply scan the code and receive, “significant details for locating the book in the Libraries’ collections and the descriptive information of the item (e.g., title, author, publisher).”
Here are a couple of records from InfoKat. 1 ||| 2
Complete University of Kentucky Libraries Announcement
See Also: A Few More Libraries Providing QR Codes With Each Record
+ OskiCat at UC Berkeley
+ The University of Bath Library Catalogue
+ The University of Huddersfield
Filed under: Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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