Professional paper

RFID technology in the Zagreb City Libraries

Višnja Cej
Kluk Giunio
Tomislav Silić

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology for the wireless transmission of data via radio frequency. RFID technology has been used in libraries around the world for the past 10 years. It was first implemented in the libraries of the City of Zagreb during the construction of the new Augusta Cesarec Library on Šubićeva Street. For this it was necessary to adapt the library’s ZaKi program to the working with an RFID system. The result was the library’s ZaKi RFID program, which has been completely adapted and optimized to work with RFID technology. In library operations RFID is used for the circulation of library materials (borrowing and return), devices for automated operations3 and the transport of materials,4 the protection of materials and the purging of stock, which greatly eases and speeds up these processes. This work discusses the procedures for the RFID system in the libraries of the City of Zagreb, the history and description of RFID technology, the equipment for using it in libraries, and a comparison between the RFID and the barcode systems. Finally, the work examines the advantages and shortcomings of RFID technology in the form of a SWOT analysis.

Keywords

RFID technology; library automation

Hrčak ID:

115199

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/115199

Publication date:

3.9.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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