Our website has several new features. One is a new 'international law news' feature right in the centre of our home page, collected and brought to you by our law librarians. The second is the use of QR codes – the weird looking black and white dotted cube at the left hand side underneath the latest library blog. This is more of an experiment than a real feature.
Our library staff is immersed in international law news in many forms on a daily basis. We read websites, newspapers, blogs, news of international organizations and many other things. We decided to bring this international law news as a kind of extra alerting service in a new blog on international law news; of which the two latest items appear on the home page. Read it on the site or use RSS to stay up to date.
QR codes, or Quick Reponse codes, are two-dimensional bar codes containing information like phone numbers, text, URLs, or other things. These codes can be scanned by camera smartphones, like the iPhone or Android phone. Using a special scanning application, like Google’s free Barcode Scanner, you can scan the QR code to read the information hidden inside it. Your phone will automatically take you to a website or get you the library’s contact information for example, right on your phone. The QR on the left hand side of the home page will take you to a phone friendly version of our library blog, and we are exploring new ways of using these codes to take you to bibliographic information./p>