10 years on: the use of RFID technology in libraries

Developments, experiences, initiatives and goals in the context of german libraries as RFID-user

Frank Seeliger

World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly 17th August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday 13.45 till 15.45, Session 186 in Room 104

What makes internet of things so important to the IFLA ?

Further reasons:

Today, I estimate that we haveca. 4.000 libraries worldwideworking with RFID.

How many issuing companies offer here in our exhibition hall RFID solutions on their booths?

We are privileged to be here, means ourduty to theinterested non-participants.

Can RFID help us to mobilize information pinpoint (space-related)?

RFID on the surface didn’t seem the sexiest of topics ... but it turnedout to be one of the interesting ones. Richard Wallis

RFID Special Interest Group (SIG-RFID)

16.00-17.30 in room 204 !!!

de 5.30 pm a 6 pm en espacio 204!!!

HF or UHF data models thick interfaces Privacyelectromagnetic pollution monitoring inter-

library loans SIP/NCIP Guideline qualitynetworking tools tendering ROI longevity

retention time non-book materials NFC

Kick-off schedule as warming up by SIG-RFID with following POI

1. My background and context related to RFID

2. Short introduction into typical RFID apps for libraries

3. Some projects and goals in german speaking countries

4. Projects running by working groups in TUAS Wildau

Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt University, USA)"RFID Technologies in the context of Emerging Library Automation Trends"

Mick Fortune (Consultant for UK libraries)

Edmund Balnaves(Australia and member of IT-section as Information Coordinator)

My home is my castle: TUAS Wildau

• ca. 4.000 students

• 250 members of staff

• 3 Faculties

• course degrees in (with view to RFID)

Logistic, Telematic, Business Computing, Engineering

Campus with Tradition: with full steam ahead

Who is going hand in gloves?

Typical RFID-Apps in the library context

SafetySortingSelf-checkstock-managementdispenser

HF 13,56 MHzISO 15693 ISO 18000-3.1Passive TagsSIP2/NCIP/SIP3ISO DIS 28560

Survey by Mick Fortune:self-service is still clear favourite in RFID apps

Monographic publications in book form

Or as free available online-publication

Inventory

CATHERINE COOKE wins 2009 the RFID Innovation Award

„... has been able to produce an inventoryfor over 1,500 book titles an hour; performa complete search for missing items withina large library in less than five hours; and dramatically improve the quality of thelibrary catalogue to improve user services.„

Smart shelves, blades as solution

Cardiff University's Biomedical Sciences Library

RFID-based Library Management (R-LIM) System

Soonchunhyang University, South Korea

Sengkang CommunityLibrary, Lee Kong ChianReference Library in the National Library of Singapore

Art library in Sitterwerk (Switzerland)

Chaos principle to put the books into theshelf, see http://roborfid.dyndns.org/

German communication platform

website +++ mailinglist +++ working group with twice yearly meetings

Annual international conferences in Wildau or London

Round Tables on quality control – VDI Guidline

Association of German EngineersVDI 4478 Blatt 1 (draft)

„VDI Guidelines play a very important role as pioneers for international standardization: Accessible for all market participants, theyallow savings by reducing information and control costs as well as costs for adjustmentand trading. Technical knowledge can spreadfaster.“ (Source: http://www.vdi.eu)

BiblioScan - a cooperative research project

Some keywords

• cooperation with different companies

• integrative use of RFID in many workflows

• experiments with HF and UHF

• 3D visualisation

Usage statistics of printed newspapers & journals

Some keywords: mobile unit, RFID, bluetooth-interface, rechargeable battery

Changes in library use

The library as learning and study center, a place to work!

Other fact:

70.000

annual loans in relation to

400.000

downloads!

British Library predictsswitch to digital by 2020

Lynne Brindley (CEO, British Library, 2005)„Most people are aware that a national switch to digital broadcasting is expected by the end of thisdecade. Less well known is the fact that a similartrend is underway in the world of publishing: by theyear 2020, 40% of UK research monographs will beavailable in electronic format only, while a further 50% will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10% of new titles will be available in print alone by 2020. „

British Library predictsswitch to digital by 2020

British Library’s 2020 Vision

We estimate that by 2020, 75% of all titles worldwide will be published in digital form only, or in both digital and print.

iCampus goes Library

From the audio- to themultimediaguide

iCampus goes Library - Touchpoint

iCampus goes Library - Localisation

Many Thanks for your Attention!

Let us leave limits in thinking!