"Management of RFID in Libraries" Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005

I find this article immensely interesting. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of RFID tag usage in libraries. Imagining being capable of eventually checking in an entire stack of books at once is astounding to me!

The library where I work have exit gates and we put a card in the pocket in the back of the book to signify an item has been checked out, which also prevents the alarm from sounding. While I suppose this is fairly typical library security, I had not thought of the tag in the pocket as an RFID before reading this article.

I guess it is possible that RFIDs will replace barcode technology, but I think the technology needed to adapt it to a library setting (an RFID that would work in a thin item, and last many years) is not yet in existence.