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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Library Systems division of 3M unveiled a product this week designed to help libraries maneuver the myriad RFID tag data formats used by RFID-enabled library systems, currently and in the future.

I work in a big library. What is the benefit of having a printed bar code on a label, if we have an RFID tag under that label? Are there any printers made especially for encoding a tag only, not ...

To reduce its loss factor, the Cynthiana-Harrison Public Library in Kentucky will deploy a radio frequency identification (RFID) security system from 3M Library Systems this fall. 3M will install two ...

The expansion of the Crandall Public Library will offer patrons more than additional space. The expanded library will also include radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The system will ...

I would like to commend The Chronicle for its August 6 article “Talking Tags.” The article dealt in a rational, balanced way with the topic of high-tech labels in library books. However, I would like ...

We don’t know whether this will help thwart late returns, but Cambridge, Mass.-based TAGSYS is tagging books at China’s Shenzhen Library. Within days, nearly 2 million RFID tags will be integrated and ...