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RF I DO!
Mary A. Kelly and
Derek Engi
Salem-South Lyon District LibraryImagine the Possibilities!
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RFID-What is it?
• RFID is used to describe systems that use radio waves to identify objects
• Think of it as a barcode on steroids
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Barcodes
• Fixed information
• Data security• Limited data• Line of sight
only• One at a time
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RFID
• No Line of sight necessary
• Tags can be read in the vicinity of a reader
• Modification of data possible
• Can read multiple tags at once
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RFIDWhat is involved?
RFID is basically two pieces:
Tags
Reader(interrogator)
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Salem-South Lyon’s RFID Project
• 65,000 items beginning October 2004
• 11 months to retrofit collection (done in-house)
• All staff contributed to retrofit project
• 10-15 high school volunteers
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Why spend an obscene amount of money, a year retrofitting a collection, dealing with yet another technology issue for staff to complain about and generally make one’s professional life a nightmare?
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Security
• The most visible part and biggest selling point of RFID
• Think of combining the power of tattletape with your ILS
• Less intrusive to the public
• Proven technology
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Self Check-out
• Patron convenience
• Less time and staffing needed for circulation
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Other time savings with RFID
• Faster discharge• Faster checkout• Automation of routine
circulation tasks• Inventory management
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Inventory Wand
• Collects information quickly without “heavy lifting”
• Brings your ILS to the material rather than material to ILS
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The Inventory Wand• Allows for any criteria from
your ILS or master shelf list to load into the system
• Wave the wand close to the collection
• With practice, staff can pass the wand over one full stack in less than a minute (30 items on a shelf, 6 shelves).
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Making RFID go to 11!
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FDS
• Functional Data and Statistics• RFID / PHP / MySQL / Python• Passively gathers checkpoint
data from circuit readers and self-check
• Pre-Director Station• No ILS? No Problem!• Shelflist
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FDS
• Functional Data and Statistics
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FDS
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Inventory Control
• All things accounted for in real time
• RFID collects and processes information faster
• Each item is identified so theoretically, no missing items
• Shelf order maintenance
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Collection Quality and RFID
• Identify your hot sellers• Get more copies• Buy more of the same genre
or author
• Identify the losers• Is the topic a dud or is it the
material or format?• Re-evaluate investment of
collection money
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Collection Quality and RFID
• Staff time on collection management is reduced
• Weeding can be done in minutes
• Number of missing books reduced
• Reduction in number of miss-filings
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Salem-South Lyon District Library
• Before RFID, we had over 2,000 missing items
• On the first serious day with the inventory wand we found over 100 items missing
• Current missing list is less than 700
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Salem-South Lyon District Library
• Identified mislabeled items
• Identified misshelved items
• Weeding and other collection maintenance tasks are on-going rather than sporadic
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WHAMS
• RFID / PHP / MySQL based PC registration
• Really simple, keeps track of stats
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Whams
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Things I wish I had known before implementing RFID• Weed ruthlessly• If you are putting a tag on
something, take the extra time and do a complete physical inventory of the collection
• Staff buy-in and communication is more important than you think
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For more information
• Visit the us at: http://salemsouthlyonlibrary.info
Email us: [email protected]