Imagining The FutureGary Green

Surrey County Council Library Servicegary.green@surreycc.gov.uk

CILIP RFID in Libraries Conference 2012

What ifs?

• Unusual & creative uses of RFID technology beyond the library sector.

• With a bit of tweaking could we translate them into library use?

• What benefits would it give us & our library users?

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Science of Survival Exhibition

• Interactive museum exhibition based around sustainable living & the environment.

• Record visitor experience throughout the exhibition & choices they make.

• All visitors experience added to build a combined futurescape of people’s choices at the exhibition.

Science of Survival Exhibition

Translated into library use...

• Visitor tracking: how do your visitors use & navigate the library?

• Best places in the library to site stock & services.

• Show what’s happening in your social network... the library.

Interactive Sculpture Walk

• Sculptures placed in urban areas of Northern California.

• RFID tags embedded in sculptures.

• Using NFC enabled phones people can leave messages via the tags.

• People can also read messages other have left.

Interactive Sculpture Walk

Translated into library use...

• Users add their emotional experience to library resources – reviews, ratings, comments.

• Those experiences are shared with other library users – personal recommendations.

Wine Selection

• RFID tagged wine bottles.

• Place selected wine on RFID enabled shelf.

• Display more information about wine than appears on label – recommended food, rating, how many other customers selected it.

• Records user activity.

Wine Selection

Translated into library use...

• Value added information about stock – press reviews, upcoming author events, recommendations based on choice.

• Provides library with information about how people are using our resources.

Cemeteries

• RFID tagged gravestones. • NFC enabled phone.

• Visitors can learn more about the person buried there.

• Visitors leave messages & record stories for others who visit.

Cemeteries

Translated into library use... • Users able to add

information to library resources that they have intimate knowledge of.

• Users able to fill in “missing information” in our resources.

Toys & Play

• RFID enabled soft toy act as reader or trigger.

• Animal rescue centre: provides multimedia information about animals.

• Pling Plong: Audio player pillow reads out audiobook when book placed near it.

• LAMBERT: Sign language support.

Toys & Play

Translated into library use...

• Link play to core purposes of libraries: education, language, literacy.

• Alternative way to enjoy books & story telling.

British Music Experience

• British pop music exhibition.

• RFID enabled entrance ticket.

• Scan ticket to bookmark parts of exhibition.

• Go home & enter ticket

number onto website & see more about areas you bookmarked.

British Music Experience

Translated into library use...

• Bookmark RFID tagged library resources using NFC enabled smartphone.

• Smartphone can share information with others.

• Access their “bookmarks” outside of the library building.

The Nest Haunted House

• Theme park experience.

• Pulls in data from your Facebook account

• Visitors wear RFID badges which trigger personalised “creepy” responses throughout the haunted house eg their name appearing on gravestone.

The Nest Haunted House

Library use…

• RFID enabled device (smartphone) linked to Facebook account.

• Use data from other networks to suggests user might want to borrow “this item” that is in the library on the shelf right now.

• Personalises experience.

Creative Uses of RFID Could…

• Identify how people use library services & resources.

• Enable library users to share opinions & experiences.

• Provide value added info beyond the physical library resource.

• Enable library users to contribute knowledge to collections.

• Assist in provision of libraries’ core purpose.

• Share library resources more easily.

• Personalise library services in real time.

Links & Image CreditsThese links & more: http://www.delicious.com/ggstopflat/cilip_rfid_2012

Image Credits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87745495@N00/4699082802/ Science Of Survival slide (jjutt/Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16102959@N00/3335072656/ Wine selection slide (whisperwolf/Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85494010@N00/72250668/ Interactive sculpture walk slide (darkmatter/Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10607845@N03/3176581879/ Cemeteries slide (Bryan Burke/Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mackta/2431849657 The Nest Haunted House slide (Tiffany.Ann.M/Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/81373327@N00/177425082/ British Music Experience slide (boston_camera/Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98799884@N00/3132326512/ Toys & Play slide (audreyjm529/Flickr)

Imagining The FutureGary Green

Surrey County Council Library Servicegary.green@surreycc.gov.uk

CILIP RFID in Libraries Conference 2012