{"id":3053,"date":"2011-03-02T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:53:01","slug":"qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Best Bytes: QR Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/QR-code-in-libraries2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3057\" title=\"QR code in libraries\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/QR-code-in-libraries2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QR_Code\" target=\"_blank\">QR Code<\/a> is a two-dimensional barcode which can be encoded with a URL, word text, phone number, SMS\/text, or other data.\u00a0 If you see one, open your phone&#8217;s barcode app, point your camera to the QR code, and wait for the info to appear.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a QR code is easy and free!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/qrcode.kaywa.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/qrcode.kaywa.com<\/a> (or a similar website)<\/li>\n<li>Chose your content type (URL, text, phone number, SMS)<\/li>\n<li>Enter content (URL, text, phone number, SMS #)<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Generate&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Right-click the QR code to save the image<\/li>\n<li>Paste the image on flyers, PowerPoint, embed in webpages, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Use QR codes to send patrons to your library&#8217;s virtual tour, text reference service, mobile device apps, LibGuides, and more.\u00a0 The uses are endless!\u00a0 Comment on this blog entry to share how your library is using QR codes!<\/p>\n<p><em>Posted 3\/2\/11<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A QR Code is a two-dimensional barcode which can be encoded with a URL, word text, phone number, SMS\/text, or other data.\u00a0 If you see one, open your phone&#8217;s barcode app, point your camera to the QR code, and wait for the info to appear. Creating a QR code is easy and free! Go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,106,33],"tags":[110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}