The World's First QR Code Film Festival
While scanning through my library stream on G+ I came across a post entitled The World's First QR Code Film Festival. It immediately caught my attention because I've been reading a lot about QR codes recently and I have been trying to come up with ways to use them in our library.
QR codes are popping up more and more on supermarket products, movie posters and book jackets to name a few. They are the next step up from bar codes and when scanned with a smart phone they usually connect the user to a web page but can also be used to provide other information such as a page of text or contact details.
They are a bit of a gimmick and many would say they are on the way out already. I think they are something that could prove very useful in libraries. They are extremely easy to make and there are plenty of free QR Code generators online. So far I've only read about their use in academic libraries but I am very keen to hear about Public Libraries using them. I've used them on our brochures and advertisements to link people to our library blog.
So back to my Film Festival. The idea with the Festival is that you print of a pdf page of the QR Codes and display it in your venue. People can then scan the codes and watch the films on a youtube channel. I loved this idea so I did up a poster and printed off the page and it is now on display in our library.
I saw the link a little late, the Film Festival is only until the 31st of July so I don't know if we'll get many 'attending'. Is has inspired me to try something more literary based in the future. I'm thinking a poetry festival.
Have you used these codes in your library? I would love to hear about it.
QR codes are popping up more and more on supermarket products, movie posters and book jackets to name a few. They are the next step up from bar codes and when scanned with a smart phone they usually connect the user to a web page but can also be used to provide other information such as a page of text or contact details.
They are a bit of a gimmick and many would say they are on the way out already. I think they are something that could prove very useful in libraries. They are extremely easy to make and there are plenty of free QR Code generators online. So far I've only read about their use in academic libraries but I am very keen to hear about Public Libraries using them. I've used them on our brochures and advertisements to link people to our library blog.
So back to my Film Festival. The idea with the Festival is that you print of a pdf page of the QR Codes and display it in your venue. People can then scan the codes and watch the films on a youtube channel. I loved this idea so I did up a poster and printed off the page and it is now on display in our library.
I saw the link a little late, the Film Festival is only until the 31st of July so I don't know if we'll get many 'attending'. Is has inspired me to try something more literary based in the future. I'm thinking a poetry festival.
Have you used these codes in your library? I would love to hear about it.
What a great use for QR codes! I love this idea. I work at an academic library and we haven't implemented them as of this time of writing, I believe, though I was on a committee researching them a couple of years back.
ReplyDeleteThanks Claire, I read an article about using QR codes in an academic library for guided tours for new students. They scanned the qr codes at different locations and it gave them an audio file with info about the area they were in.
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