Librarians and technology officers curious about radio-frequency identification, or RFID, have booked flights to the University of California at Los Angeles this week. The university’s Wireless Internet for the Mobile Enterprise Consortium is demonstrating a number of recently-developed RFID applications, including a system that helps libraries track their books.
For more on the technology—and on concerns that RFID tags could be used to broadcast library patrons’ information to stalkers and snoops—see an article by Scott Carlson.
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