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 ...

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 ...

Starting in October, public libraries in Hamburg, Germany, will begin implementing an RFID-based system for checking materials in and out. The system will be provided by the Danish division of U.K.