APPLICATION OF RFID AT LIBRARY FOR CONTROL OF INFORMATION SERVICES

It is not just the ubiquitous computers that constitute technology in Library and Information
centers. There are intricate databases, electronic Information Services and quite recently RFID tags. Not
many patrons know of RFID tags. But in the library community there are questions of privacy. It is not just
Libraries that use RFID. RFID Technology could transform stores, factories every day lives of people.
This Technology offers a higher level of security system, so the choice now for users is whether they want
a chip inserted into their fatty tissues below the triceps or to have their palm veins recorded with an
infrared light. The safety precautions are important especially in the wake of 9/11 and that once has one
kind of technology, it is only natural that it will lead to another. Yet all this sounds too high tech. really!
This technology is a boon. This article presents an application of technology for library management. It
discusses the technology and need of RFID in a larger collection of Libraries and some special
Information Services.