A QR code is like a two-dimensional barcode. Here's one:
If you have a QR code reader and a camera on your smartphone (and most of you have smartphones these days), pointing your phone at the above should return:
McClave, H. ,Communication for business ,658.45 MCC
Which you may recognise as Henry McClave's popular textbook, Communication for Business and its classmark (658.45 MCC). Last year, with the assistance of our Library Management System vendor, we introduced QR codes into the library catalogue, the rationale being that instead of writing interesting book details on pieces of paper or your wrists, you could store some details on your mobile by pointing your phone at the QR code on display. We have upgraded our library catalogue since then, and in the new version, QR codes are present on every page. These codes only contain the URL of the page on display, so if you scanned the QR code on your mobile, your phone’s browser would open the library catalogue page that you were looking at on your PC. A bit pointless really. We've spoken to our library management system vendor again and they have given us the ability to display once again author, title and classmark, which hopefully is more useful to you than the URL of the page that you are looking at on the catalogue.
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