Comments on: QR Codes and libraries http://strangelibrarian.org/2007/07/qr-codes-and-libraries/ playing in the waves since 1982 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:54:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shazam!: audio qr codes | the strange librarian http://strangelibrarian.org/2007/07/qr-codes-and-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-2545 Shazam!: audio qr codes | the strange librarian Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:14:31 +0000 http://strangelibrarian.org/blog/?p=92#comment-2545 [...] a second- need to brush up on the what’s and why’s of qr codes? I wrote about them in 2007 & again in 2010 when libraries started to clue [...] [...] a second- need to brush up on the what’s and why’s of qr codes? I wrote about them in 2007 & again in 2010 when libraries started to clue [...]

]]> By: Cynthia http://strangelibrarian.org/2007/07/qr-codes-and-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Cynthia Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:54:34 +0000 http://strangelibrarian.org/blog/?p=92#comment-26 I love the idea of a bar code upgrade, but sadly I don't see this happening for a simple reason--for profits are not adopting it. The only way this would be possible is for those books at BN to have the proper bar codes. The cost to switch for publishers is very high. Add to that the infrastructure upgrades that the retailers would need and you quickly understand the resistance. However, as always with new technology, resistance is futile. I think it will happen in time. Hopefully, when it does, libraries will be early adaptors. I love the idea of a bar code upgrade, but sadly I don’t see this happening for a simple reason–for profits are not adopting it. The only way this would be possible is for those books at BN to have the proper bar codes.

The cost to switch for publishers is very high. Add to that the infrastructure upgrades that the retailers would need and you quickly understand the resistance. However, as always with new technology, resistance is futile.

I think it will happen in time. Hopefully, when it does, libraries will be early adaptors.

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