DEPLOYING QUICK RESPONSE (QR) CODES IN LIBRARIES

Authors

The purpose of the study is to explore how deployment of quick response code (OR

codes in libraries. Mobile phones, are becoming ubiquitous in modern society. One

way that mobile phone users are able to access information is through the use of quick

response (QR codes. With the advent of smart and Web capable mobile devices, there

have been steady growths in commercial and business oriented usage of OR codes.

OR codes have been incorporated into public, academic, special and school library

settings. Its features include high reading speed, data storage and transfer. 360 degree

readability, resistance to contamination and defects. Some of the ways QR codes can

be actively used in libraries is to promote optimum use of the library resources and

services. Adoption of the @R code in library will help to improve library services for

users and will enhance the reputation of library and information services as well as

that of the information professionals (librarians) thereby, helping them to market

their product and services through the use of smartphone or mobile devices which will

likely help the library patrons to find value in QR codes.

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE,

DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY, P.M.B. 1,

ABRAKA, DELTA STATE, NIGERIA