1. Workshop 7. RFID and self-service

2. Participants Johan van Halm (Netherlands). Leader Vitodrag Vodnik (Slovenia) Zdenek Tichy (Czhech republic) Annu Jauhiainen (Finland) Radek Holy (Czhech republic) Aart Nieuwland (Netherlands) Matjaz Gigrovski (Slovenia) Ramon Ros (Spain)

3. General introduction to RFID –The origins –Standards involved (ISO15693) –Technolgy involved –Types of tags and use (books, borrower´s card, cd-rom, etc.) –Services offered by using RFID –Securiy issues

4. General discussion Players involved (ILS vendor, HW vendor, RFID installer, etc.) Benefits of RFID/self-check –Improve customer services (ex: longer opening window) –Save labour costs –Inventory control Very important: promotion to staff & users

5. Video session! Ok, just 60 sec.

6. Checklist for an RFID self-check system Integration with ILS (standards important) Ergonomic design It should be compact (specially if sorting machines) Reliability and maintenance (important remote access) SIP-2 protocol minimum Item per item or stack

7. Quality of label (and also printed with logos or so) Price Training planning and documentation Parametrization (by the library itself) Implementation flow (phisical) Integration of borrower´s card with other services (access, coffe machine, photocopier, etc.) Statistics

8. The end All the participants with a great knowledge of what to ask before installing an RFID system.