Fikie@ICTinLibraries: Sumbmission of Project 2: Promoting Young Adult Fiction using QR Codes

Purpose of selecting YA fiction

I used to be a Teenagers Librarian at Durbanville Library from June 2012 to January 2017. Fortunately, Durbanville community has a very strong culture of reading. Quite often both teens and teen parents will ask for books on specific genres, books intended for boys/girls only, books dealing with real life issues/sicknesses, looking for books written by new authors in the market, and so on. In the recent years, books that were turned or made it in movies started becoming very popular (for example, the Fault in our stars by John Green and the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins) are amongst the many of books who became very popular in Teen culture and they were ranked as one of the best movies in the 21^st Century.

I selected this topic with the purpose of assisting other Libraries in promoting popularity of Teens fiction and promoting reading within Teens. Reality is that teens don’t really like browsing through hundreds of books on the shelves, they have busy lives and little time to spend in libraries. Most public libraries under the City of Cape Town have WiFi installations which leave a possibility of Teens and parents finding using these QR codes easy and fast. Teens are also good in using mobile devices and QR codes are also becoming popular in South Africa.

Aim of the posters

The reason for separating the QR codes and creating different posters for each was simply for easy access and organization of genres. Teens like simple information, bright but with less details. They see too much text and they run away (talking from experience), you want to catch their attention, then less is more. These codes will just be a quick guide of loaning them for more. There’s also a poster of where and how they can find these books/movies, they can decide to go to a library or order them online, no limitations.