Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Innovative uses of RFID

[Marla Ehlers]

I promised I'd summarize and report back.  I heard from perhaps a dozen libraries and 2 RFID vendors. Of innovative uses suggested, one library takes inventory of collections frequently to demonstrate to their board and constituency the value of the collection which they verify is actually on shelf as well as the value of the missing items they are able to locate and bring back into the system. Another library's staff slip tags into colleagues coats and bags to cause embarrassment as they leave the building. All the rest responded with some version of "We're thinking about RFID, too, so please share."  Clearly there's much interest out there. If you missed this initial post over the holiday, feel free to send along your ideas for innovative uses of RFID in libraries, something you won't read about in the brochures. Also, if you're really seriously thinking about implementing RFID in the next three years and willing to do some out-of-the-box thinking regarding a project we're working on, I'd love to hear from you as well. Thanks! Marla Marla Ehlers wrote: We're building our case for RFID and we're interested in hearing about innovative uses for it in a library and archives setting that we won't learn about from the standard brochures and library literature. If you've come up with an innovative use (or just any use you don't think others may have stumbled upon), we'd really love to hear from you! Marla --