If you haven’t been to a public library lately you might be surprised what you find. You might find you can check out your own books and DVDs without the aid of a clerk. You might find a librarian ...

It’s becoming outrageously expensive not to track assets and monitor people’s safety, especially when a device like the GPS-Buddy RFID-Tag, from the company GPS-Buddy, can provide so much more ...

Imagine a library system that knows where every book is and allows visitors to return and issue books automatically. That dream is slowly becoming a reality as libraries adopt the use of tiny Radio ...

In March, the National Information Standards Organization adopted RFID in US Libraries (RP-6-2012), establishing ISO 28560-2 as the recommended practices for coding data on the RFID tags used in ...

“We’re a library system that is being loved to death,” says Jackie Powers, director of public information for Colorado’s Jefferson County Public Library. The library system serves more than 370,000 of ...

With more than 320,000 items in its collection, including rare legal documents, and a variety of cataloging systems in use, such as paper card catalogs, the Max Planck Institute for European History ...

Colloquy: Read the transcript of an online discussion about whether libraries’ increasing use of high-tech tags to keep track of books poses a threat to privacy and civil liberties by enabling library ...

RFID stands for “radio frequency identification,” and refers to a technology that uses radio waves to transmit information short distances. An RFID asset tracking system uses a combination of tags ...