Presentation about RFID tech for the V Meeting on Best Practices and Knowledge Management in the Library of the University of Seville (29th november, 2012)

1. Libraries in tune
RFID in the Engineering, Education Sciences and Law & Labour Sciences Libraries
English translation:
Rafael Valenzuela Víctor M. Moya
Víctor M. Moya Revised:
Ángela Arévalo
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2. Objectives
• To know RFID uses
• To analise the results of RFID applications
• To explore future developments
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3. Contents
Libraries in Thinking
What is
tune: RFID about the
RFID ?
in the BUS future…
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4. What RFID is?
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification):
is the use of a wireless non-contact system
that uses radio-frequency electromagnetic
fields to transfer data from a tag attached to
an object, for the purposes of automatic
identification and tracking (based on
Wikipedia deffinition)
In a library…
RFID is the Bar Code best friend because of:
- RFID tag data capacity is large enough
- The tag can be read even if it’s not visible
- It favour data integrity
- Tags are more resistant
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5. Contents
Libraries in Thinking
What is
tune: RFID about the
RFID?
in the BUS* future…
BUS= Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla (Library of the University of Seville)
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6. RFID in the BUS - Equipments
RFID it’s working in
three of our libraries
Soon… …RCLR Antonio de Ulloa
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7. RFID in the BUS - Equipments
Library
Self-check Work Stations
Stations DLA
Engineering 1 1 5
Law & Labour Sc. 2 1 3
Education Sc. 2 1 2
TOTAL 5 3 10
Software:
- Tag conversion software
- Circulation management software
- Did Stat FM
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8. RFID in the BUS - Equipments
Tag conversion software
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9. RFID in the BUS - Equipments
Circulation management software
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10. RFID in the BUS - Self-check
Increase in self-checking
Self-checking by year/library 2009-2012
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11. RFID in the BUS - Inventories
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12. RFID in the BUS - Inventories
Previous tasks:
1. Inventory settings (Milenium lists)
2. DLA’s Lending between the libraries Derecho y CT y Educación (Coordinating
Services. Strategic Objective 2.2 Strategic Plan 2012-2014)
3. Preliminary tests in some sections of the collection (detecting empty tags)
4. Shelves organization to facilitate the tag reading.
5. Libraries were opened during the reading process.
(9-11 July/ 17-24 August).
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13. RFID in the BUS - Inventories
Engineering
Collection Scanned DLA Days
40.067 35.549 3
3
Education Sciences
Collection Scanned DLA Days
37.913 33.804 2
5
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14. RFID in the BUS - Inventories
Inventory Data treatment using DidStat FM
DLA
scanned
items
Not scanned
items
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15. RFID in the BUS - Inventories
Other inventory data
Engineering
Not scanned No. items not detected by Did Stat FM 4.518
Not found No. Items not found after the revision 761
Education Sciences
Not scanned No. items not detected by Did Stat FM 4.104
Not found No. Items not found after checking 711
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16. What librarians think about RFID?
1.- RFID speeds up the check-out and check-in of documents in the desk
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17. What librarians think about RFID?
2.- New self-check stations facilitate check-ins and check-outs to users
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18. What librarians think about RFID?
3.- RFID tagging and recording tasks are fast
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19. What librarians think about RFID?
4.- DLA (Digital Library Assistant) facilitate the inventory tasks (question to be
answered only by the staff participating in inventories)
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20. What librarians think about RFID?
5.- Generally, my opinion about RFID is better since I use RFID equipment
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21. Contents
Libraries in Thinking
What is
tune: RFID about the
RFID?
in the BUS future…
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22. Thinking about the future…
Searching items
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23. Thinking about the future…
Counting usage
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24. Thinking about the future…
Intelligent book return
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQq1hKQ6b30
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25. Thinking about the future…
Active shelves… Oslo Public Library
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26. Thinking about the future…
Digital development team / Oslo Public Library http://digital.deichman.no/
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27. Thinking about the future…
Mobile check-out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_bvyqJVfU
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28. Thanks for your attention!
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29. Special thanks
• Colleagues who helped us with the survey about RFID in Libraries
• Digital development team, Oslo Public Library
• Anne-Lena Westrum, Oslo Public Library’s Project Manager
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30. About copyright
Some of the images in this presentation are protected by copyright. They’ve been used under the
permission of their licensor or respecting the copyright license. According to the attribution right,
we credit them here.
Digital development team / Oslo Public Library http://digital.deichman.no/
Håkon Sønderland (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ergates/)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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