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Wednesday, 2nd June 2010

QR Codes for Some Entries in the UC Berkeley OPAC

Lorcan Dempsey from OCLC Research reports that some of the entries in the University of California at Berkeley public catalog now contain QR codes with book info (title, location, LCC, and availability) about the item when scanned.

Scanning the QR code below this entry provides this data (taken from the catalog record itself.

Le débat Locke-Filmer / par F:: :: Main
(Gardner) Stacks
JC 155 .L47 1998 (Available)

Double Clicking on the Text (Using QuickMark for iPhone)
runs all of the text as a single search in Google Shopping.

Note: We ran a few searches and spot checked 10 entries. 8 of 10 had QR codes including DVD's and CD's.

Source: Lorcan Dempsey @lorcand
Hat Tip: Peter Brantley

See Also: Speaking of QR Codes and libraries, thee "QR code cards" pictured here are from the University of Amsterdam. They're being distributed to promote the library portion of the University's recently launched mobile web site. A bit more in this post.

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