Radio-Frequency IDentifiers. Used in libraries to uniquely identify books in patron self-service and back-room automation systems.
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How to discourage patrons writing and marking into books?
Some patrons return books with margins full of comments, underlined text, even luminescent text markers have been applied.
Use of RFID-based return machines skips the check applied by most ...
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Are any visually unobtrusive machine-readable labelling systems available? [duplicate]
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Alternatives to barcodes for book identification
Both barcodes and qr-codes have the problem of taking up visual space on the outside of the book.
Pro: The book ...
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Alternatives to RFID for checking the completeness of a package?
One of the features RFID offers over barcodes is the ability to join a set of RFID tags into a group, and check for the completeness of that group each time it is checked out of the library or ...
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Using “Bulk RFID” scans to reshelve books, does it work?
Years ago, I saw a library that said it was planning to use "Bulk RFID" scanner to assess the need to manually reshelve books on a given shelf, and/or find misreshelved books. By "Bulk RFID" scanner, ...
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Alternatives to barcodes for book identification
Barcodes are cheap and they work, but they often also cover up parts of the book's cover. They could be stuck to the inside, but this is often inconvenient.
I've often been wondering what ...
