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For librarians, new identification chips in books make life easier. But civil libertarians say the smart books are a scary invasion of privacy.
http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/BESTPRAC.pdf
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/07/26/rfid
This week, staffers at the Berkeley Public Library will begin putting radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in half of the 500,000 items in their collection.
When the tags embedded in copies of “Gone With the Wind” and “Mein Kampf” pass within 18 inches of the library’s RFID readers, they’ll come to life, revealing a unique identification number specific to each individual copy. The tags will allow readers to do their own checkouts and will liberate librarians from the monotonous — and sometimes painful — task of endlessly scanning books.
By implementing the system this fall, the Berkeley Public Library will join more than 300 libraries around the world that have already outfitted their books with RFID tags,
including the
Santa Clara City Library,
the Maricopa County Library in Arizona,
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, the Independence Township library in Michigan and the National University of Singapore Libraries.
ven the Vatican Library’s vast collection is getting chipped.
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