Adoption of Quick Response Code to Promote Library and Information Resources and Services

Umar Muhammad Modibbo, Anthonia U. Echedom

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Quick Response (QR) code is modern technology which can cater to the user demand of providing access to resources through mobile-phone. The main objective of this paper is to review the concept of QR code and describe the practice of reading and generating the codes. The paper attempts to the basic concept and structure of the QR code, types and forms of QR code, and, how to generate QR code.


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