RFID in libraries: Some resources

Gary McGath, HUL/OIS

These are resources related to policy or technical issues on library use of RFID. Listing them here doesn't necessarily mean agreement, either by me or by the Harvard University Libraries. To keep this list from becoming a major project, it's restricted to links which have library-specific content.

• Organizations:
• RFID for Library Applications Working Group (NISO).
  

• Blogs:
• RFID in Libraries.
  

• Mailing lists:
• RFID-LIB mailing list, hosted by San José State University School of Library and Information Science. Over 500 subscribers in many different countries.
  

• Experiences of specific libraries:
• RFID and the Santa Clara City Library.
• RFID and the San Francisco Public Library (PDF).

• Standards, formal recommendations, and proposals:
• Proposal for a standard for RFID in libraries, Danish Library Agency.
• Finnish Data Model (PDF), Finnish Libraries’ RFID Working Group. Based on the Danish model.
• Proposal for an RFID Library Model (PDF), Standards Australia Working Group.

• Other resources:
• Position Paper: RFID and Libraries, by Lori Bowen Ayre, the Galecia Group, 2004. Very good paper on privacy issues.
• RFID in Libraries: Privacy and Confidentiality Guidelines, American Library Association.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation on RFID, contains several library-specific links.
• Management of RFID in Libraries by Karen Coyle.
• RFID Implementation in Libraries, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
• RFID in Bibliotheken. In German. Links to PDF transcripts of several presentations made at a conference in Tübingen in February 2007.
• NIST guidlines for RFID security. News release with link to PDF document.

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