I love the ease of the QR tag and how cool it is that my link opens immediately on my friend’s phone! The tag was so easy to make using the Microsoft application, that once I was sure it worked I wanted to tag everything. While I am not yet in my own library, I could definitely see making a tag for the library website and sending home a flyer with each student advertising this quick link to resources for both parents and students. After the initial flyer was sent home the tag would be incorporated on any newsletter masthead, book fair advertisement, or other paper document produced in connection with the library, including my business card.
Other possible uses for these tags in the library might be to link current Book Club questions and topics to posters hung advertising the date and time of club meetings , new professional inventory for teachers could be tagged with a brief description of each title so they would know what books they wanted to actually look through , tutorials on how to use the website or the databases linked to the website could be tagged beside each computer and on simple bookmarks for library patrons to take with them.
One of my favorite ideas as a classroom teacher is probably incorporating a tag within the on-line catalog linking me to a hold request system. That way if I find the perfect book for my lesson it will be waiting on me when I need it! Tags with links to suggested reading lists organized by topic, author, or genre could also be incorporated on the books themselves. This new technology will make quite an impact on how libraries serve their patrons.
