No idea how I ran across this one, but, The Oulu University Library, in Finland, has built in Dynamic localisation of books and collections.On the ground and first floors of the Main Library customers can use map-based guidance with their PDAs or portable computers to locate the books or collections they are looking for. The guidance is based on dynamic localisation which uses localisation technology developed by Ekahau Ltd. The localisation system requires a compatible WLAN-card and the SmartLibrary software.
At present the localisation system covers the collections on the ground and first floors of the Main Library, which are divided into 160 shelves and call numbers according to the call number scheme used in the library. The system looks up the correct shelf in the database and shows its location to the user.
They have a Demo in PDF-format, and Here’s A Release by the company that set things up, Ekahau.
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