The Contra Costa County Library has been awarded a $60,000 Bay Area Library and Information Systems (BALIS) Innovation grant to create a mobile platform that will push new and existing library content and services -- literally -- into the hands of cell phone users. The “Snap & Go” project will allow Contra Costa County residents with mobile phones and a library card to access library materials, enhanced content, and manage their accounts without having to visit a library building or gain access to a computer.
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The project will utilize QR (Quick Response) codes, a two-dimensional barcode technology popular in Japan and with point-of-sale companies in the United States, and increasingly found on product labels, billboards, and posters, to encode information and automatically launch web-accessible functions.
The library will develop a Mobile Patron Support System that will link customers with cell phones to library services and information through QR codes attached to library materials including books, DVDs, flyers, posters, library cards, and the catalog.
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