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USE AND INTEGRATION OF QR CODE TECHNOLOGY IN PROMOTING LIBRARY SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS PORTAL : A CASE STUDY
Abstract
In this changing scenario, QR Code is becoming one of the most popular tools and its great help to website towards strengthening the relationship and promoting enhanced to existing library science professionals working for the community. It is one such technology which can offer to the user demand of providing access to e-resources through mobile. These advanced technologies offer access very convenient, instantaneous information, across boundaries of subject and a particular area. The Library is set an example in experimenting with adopting new technology developments; whether it is computerization and automation or adopting other ICT to improve facilities their services. The rapid developments in ICT have given a solid foundation for revolutionary changes in the information handling capabilities of information dissemination. Libraries may well reach out to the remote users who were considered unlikely to connect because of the absence of a medium. Users are becoming increasingly web-savvy reliant on advanced technologies for sharing, accessing and determining their information. Form library science perspective, understanding their users' behavior is a key to provide valuable services. In this paper, the researcher discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and implementation of QR technology on library science professional web portal.]
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QR codes are two-dimensional matrix barcodes. Last decade witnessed a steady growth in commercial and business oriented usage of these QR codes with the advent of smart and web capable mobile phones. But the movement of using QR codes in Library & Information field is still in its primary stage. This paper explains application of QR Codes in Library resource and service awareness activities. The present study focuses on brief introduction to QR codes along with how it works and its features. It also attempts to explain the use of QR codes in libraries, with special reference to QR code implementations in Central Library, NITK. This paper serves as a guide to all those who want to implement QR Codes in their Library.
In this digital era, QR Code is becoming one of the most popular tools and it great help to website towards strengthening the relationship and promoting enhanced to existing library website. Q R Code is a state of art AIDC technology that is gaining popularity with Library fraternity in India. It is one such technology which can offer to the user demand of providing access to e-resources through mobile. These advanced technologies offer access very convenient, instantaneous information, across boundaries of subject and particular area. Don Bosco College Central Library is set an example in experimenting with adopting new technology developments; where it is computerization and automation or adopting other ICT to improve facilities their services. The rapid developments in ICT have given a solid foundation for revolutionary changes in the information handling capabilities of information dissemination. Don Bosco College Central Library may well reach out to the remote users who were considered unlikely to connect because of absence of a medium. Users are becoming increasingly web savvy reliant on advance technologies for sharing, accessing and determining their information. Keeping in mind, researcher integrated AIDC in Mobile viaQR Code Technology in Don Bosco College Central Library Website for enhancing library services.
A library should try to keep up with the digital world through various technologies in this modern age. Users' of the present days especially the new generation students are having information in just one click. They became more used to retrieving information from the internet then a tradition library. As each generation becomes more in tune with the internet, their desire to retrieve information as quickly and easily as possible has increased. For them, finding information by simply searching the internet could be much easier and faster than reading an entire book. So libraries must update their techniques time to time accordingly and with the necessity of the future users'. In this article, three modern technology initiatives in the library i.e. Barcode, QR code and RFID were discussed. These are becoming very useful technology not only to serve the users' but for library security also. The overall technology, its uses, advantages, challenges of using these technologies were also discussed here. At the end, a case study has been done on Central Library, NIT, Rourkela about implement and uses of these technologies and accomplished their users' satisfaction.
Though true location aware devices such as GPS enabled phones are becoming more common (e.g., the latest iPhone includes GPS and compass) developing services that “augment” reality is unrealistic for most libraries due to time; money and technical constraints.
There is an easier option though – using small printed codes, such as QR codes, around the library that link to resources and information appropriate to their location. QR (Quick Response) codes are a matrix codes, like a two dimensional bar code. They can be read by mobile phones with integrated cameras, with a small application installed. Some mobiles come with the application ready installed, though it can also be download for free from the internet and installed on PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices. At the University of Huddersfield we have used QR codes to deliver context appropriate help and information to blur the boundaries between the physical and electronic world. We’ve developed mobile friendly materials to deliver information skills materials directly to our users at the point of need, linked by QR codes on printed materials and on appropriate locations in the physical library. This article outlines the practical uses we’ve found for QR codes and gives preliminary results of how they’ve been received by our library users.
QR (quick response) Codes, a type of barcode, are beginning to make inroads in the United States. They are still largely unknown, but early adopters in higher education and recent urban promotional campaigns are changing that. As with any new technology, it is important to understand what they can do and when they can help our users.
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Purpose
– This paper aims to explain the nature of quick response (QR) codes and their possible applications in libraries.
Design/methodology/approach
– Existing uses, applications, and functionality of QR codes are looked at, before turning to the limited existing use of QR codes in libraries. The author then suggests many different ways QR codes could be used in our libraries.
Findings
– Most of our users are likely to be able to use QR codes if they install a free reader onto their camera phones or other mobile devices. An already high and further increasing number of people own suitable devices. There are many ways QR codes can be used, with the most exciting applications relying on the use of the internet from mobile devices. The main restrictions on their take up is likely to be increasing awareness of QR codes and carefully marketing services based on QR codes to our users.
Originality/value
– Outside Japan few libraries have implemented services based on QR codes. This article is the first of its kind aimed at libraries and it shows how we can use them to take advantage of the mobile devices in many of our users” pockets.
Change management in the library and information centre is very much essential. According to forth law of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan’s library science, save the time of the reader and it is necessary for library and information science professionals to adopt new technologies in the library and information centre to provide effective services to its user and save their precious time. In this study, efforts have been made to know the application of Quick Response (QR) codes in the library and information centre and how it works to disseminate information to its user’s community.
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