[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFID

[Brandon W. Uhlman]

Hi, David.

I can only speak to the piece about how RFID works in Evergreen.

I've been working today on a migration from Horizon to Evergreen at a  
site with 3M RFID. On circulating machines, the RFID pad works as a  
human-interface device, and simply is treated like a barcode scanner  
or keyboard.

The pad has a software widget that runs alongside the Evergreen staff  
client and reads (programmable) keypresses to know whether it should  
be placed in securing or unsecuring mode -- we set this up to be F1  
and F2 to mirror Evergreen check-in and check-out keypresses.

The RFID self-check machine just points at a SIP2 server like a  
regular self-check machine, and it works fine too.

RFID was actually the easiest part of this migration, but YMMV. :)

Brandon

Quoting David Nuñez <dvngoku at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> I am interested to know if someone has implemented RFID in your libraries
> and how does it work actually?
> Do you receive sponsorship of a company?
> please let me know about the prices and costs of RFID implementation and how
> does it work with the evergreen system
>
> thank you David
>



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Brandon W. Uhlman, Systems Consultant
Public Library Services Branch
Ministry of Education
Government of British Columbia
605 Robson Street, 5th Floor
Vancouver, BC  V6B 5J3

Phone: (604) 660-2972
E-mail: brandon.uhlman at gov.bc.ca
         brandon.uhlman at bclibrary.ca