What Can RFID Tags Do For Your Library?Stacie PajewskiAmy Eisenschink

Outline Getting to RFID Tagging and Installation Old Workflow New Workflow Issues and Solutions Item Checkout Security Advantages Questions

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Getting to RFID

Should we or shouldn’t we? We should, but now with who?

Library tours Met with vendors

Timeline

Tagging and Installation

Tagging Process Overnights with

staff Mobile tagging

carts

Tagging and Installation AMH

Installation Capabilities Induction and Sorting

Old WorkflowInternal Drop

External Drop

Old Workflow – Manual Check-in

Old Workflow – Inspection and Sorting

Old Workflow – Set-Up

Old Workflow

Consistently 5-7 days behind with shelving

Constant cart shortages

New Workflow – Post RFIDInternal Drop External Drop

New Workflow - Induction

New Workflow - Conveyor

New Workflow - SortingBins #1-5 Exception bin

New WorkflowCarts to be set-up Ready to be shelved

New Workflow – Check-in of Exceptions

New Workflow – AMH Software Station

Issues and Solutions Shelving bottlenecks

Items shelved by call number only Focus on browsing collections

Fiction and Music CDs Smaller carts for youth books Additional staff shelving

Went from 5-7 days to a consistent 1-2 day turnaround Metallic materials

X marks the spot! New inserts

Issues and Solutions Audio Visual Material

No need to inspect A/V? Not quite… Tagging issues with old security Two tag maximum Books on CD will always have to be inspected =

Any item with more than one disc =

However, single disc in a single case = yay!

Item Check-outStand-up Table Tops

SecuritySecurity Gates Security Software

Advantages

Material gets checked in immediately Ex: 7 DVD limit

Security showing title information Self-check usage increased from 28% to

61% Self checks can check out multiple items

at a time

Advantages – Inventory Cart

Inventory using portable cart

Pick list using portable cart Ex. Can find

hidden and tiny books

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