MANUKAU City Council will open a hi-tech library in Botany Downs, which will be the first in New Zealand to track the location of its books using RFID tags. Libraries manager Chris Szekely says tags ...

The Bellaire City Library has recently started tagging more than 80,000 library books with a radio frequency identification, or RFID.

Your local librarian may be more wise to RFID than you realize. More than 8,000 librarians and library staff members attended the Public Library Association’s annual convention in Seattle recently.

On your next visit to the library you might be welcomed by a beep if you are carrying library items checked out before last month. That’s because you’re tagged. Well, not you but the items you’re ...

Colloquy: Read the transcript of an online discussion about whether libraries’ increasing use of high-tech tags to keep track of books poses a threat to privacy and civil liberties by enabling library ...

In a broad context, radio transmissions containing some type of identifying information are considered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). This can be a cab driver using his unit number over the ...