Application of RFID technology in intelligent library management

As readers' requirements for Library service quality continue to increase. In library Management services, it has become important to continuously improve service quality, strengthen internal management, and improve work efficiency. The use of RFID technology can reduce the workload of staff, and combine with the RFID system to achieve automated book circulation management. RFID can realize automated book borrowing/returning, ensure the security of book information, and improve the circulation efficiency of book borrowing/returning. RFID technology is applied in intelligent library management.

Construct a network operating environment for the RFID intelligent library collection management system and deploy corresponding RFID hardware equipment. It is used to identify, track, and protect all materials in the library. Through the RFID system, functions such as book borrowing, shelving, search, and collection inventory are realized, which greatly improves the efficiency of library data processing. The emergence of RFID intelligent library management systems, Development, maturity, and wide application have completely solved the problems that libraries currently need to solve.

RFID is a non-contact intelligent and automated identification technology. It mainly identifies target objects by transmitting, receiving, and processing radio frequency signals to obtain and process data to achieve intelligent and automated processing. After the library adopts RFID technology, the library's data circulation will be greatly improved. The RFID system can support borrowing/returning multiple books at the same time, which greatly improves the efficiency of book management and facilitates the work of staff.

In recent years, with the maturity of RFID technology, the decline of tag prices, the acceleration of reading speed, and the improvement of safety performance, the application of RFID technology has gradually become more and more widespread. RFID technology is not just a simple barcode substitute. Its systematic application will have a revolutionary impact on the library's entire workflow, traditional services and management models, thereby triggering new business process reorganization and promoting the development of library automation. , service functions are further enhanced. Compared with the traditional barcode plus magnetic stripe method, its advantages are mainly reflected in the following four aspects:

1. RFID technology improves the efficiency of borrowing and returning books. When borrowing and returning books with traditional barcode and magnetic stripe technology, staff still need to open the title page of the book to find the barcode, and then scan and degauss it. The borrowing and returning efficiency is relatively low. After adopting RFID technology, the RFID smart tag reader reads information in a non-contact manner, and with the anti-collision function of RFID technology, it can read and identify multiple books at the same time, thus improving the efficiency of borrowing and returning and the reception capacity of readers. .

2. RFID technology improves service levels. Through the equipped self-service book borrowing and returning peripheral equipment, readers can find the shelf number of the book on the network system, quickly and accurately find the books they need, and handle the borrowing and returning procedures by themselves, bringing convenience to readers. Libraries can realign the saved human resources so that more librarians can shift from traditional management work to serving readers or performing other value-added services.

3. RFID technology strengthens collection management. In an open-shelf library, as a library management staff, it is usually necessary to spend a lot of energy to find books and periodicals that are in disorder or mis-shelf, and to classify and place them. The workload and work intensity are relatively large. By inputting the shelving information of books into the RFID system, staff can use handheld readers to promptly detect information about books that are in disorder during daily shelving and shelving operations, making the shelving and shelving work quite easy. In addition, the use of RFID technology can also simplify the warehouse-smart-inventory-rfid-bookshelf.html target='_blank'>book inventory work of librarians.

4. RFID technology strengthens anti-theft monitoring capabilities. Traditional magnetic stripe anti-theft systems often cause many unreal theft situations, such as illusory false alarms and false alarms due to unclean degaussing. The RFID Access Control system can use the integrated reader to determine whether the checked books are illegally carried or books are missing from the borrowing records, and then determine whether to take alarm action, reducing the rate of missed negatives and false positives.

The use of RFID system technology in libraries is the current main development trend, and it has also become an important information technology pavement for library management to achieve intelligence, automation, and efficiency. RFID book management can not only track and manage book resources, but also protect the security of library books. When managing book resources, staff can quickly and efficiently manage book borrowing/returning through simple operations, achieving rapid circulation of book resources and data information.