Article on Berkeley PL and RFID
The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper has an article on Berkeley Public Library and its upcoming implementation of RFID tags to facilitate self-checkout. Given BPL's budget woes (with planned layoffs) and Berkeley's cred as a progressive bastion, the two main focuses of the article are:
1. whether the new system is meant to/will make some library staff extremely dispensible, and
2. short-term and long-term privacy concerns over RFID tags.
Comments
Hello mad librarian! Your blog has been mentioned in the latest Information World Review as their favourite blog. This may be the reason you have had increased activity on your website. It's a huge newspaper/newsletter in the UK... by the way, I'm also a mad librarian.
Posted by: Helena | February 23, 2005 04:34 AM