RFID Propels the ANGKASA Library Management System (Page 329)

1. How can RFID technology simplify basic library processes like the lending and returns of books?

• RFID innovation has disentangled the fundamental library forms like the loaning and returns of books. Borrowers simply need to just place books and other material they need to obtain on the touch screen, and hand over their cards to the library staff. 
• The screen will naturally peruses RFID labels, while the card peruser opens up a part's profile on the framework for the staff to see. After that the receipt will be produced, and with the date of return unmistakably. This framework dispenses with the requirement for physical records, stamping, and other tedious exercises engaged with the way toward looking at a book of a library. Furthermore, the framework additionally limits human mistake. 
• Moreover, returning books is additionally considerably less demanding now by utilizing RFID innovation, the borrowers simply need to just dropping their books whenever into an exceptionally outlined "drop box" machine in the library. There is a scanner inside the drop box and it will filter the RFID tag of the dropped book and checks it as returned in the framework. The arrival points of interest will be refreshed as needs be and a proof-of-return slip is issued naturally straight away after the book being returned. The entire procedure is expert through a connection between the RFID framework and the library's host PC. This dispenses with the requirement for staff who might prior have needed to process all book returns physically, and is likewise advantageous for borrowers, since they are permitted to restore their books notwithstanding when the library is shut and above all, the status of returned things is refreshed in a split second, which implies different individuals who are sitting tight for a specific thing can get it without a moment's delay.

2.What kind of technology does your school or university library use? Does IT play a crucial role in managing operations?

RFID technology has been adopted by UCSI University a few years ago. The technology helped to reduce the time of borrowing and returning the books just like what mentioned in the case study. Students in UCSI University return book by only inserting the book into the designated drop box in front of the library, and it helps to make the process more efficient and eliminate the manual process by the librarians and staff working in the library. By adopting the technology, not only librarian and library staff’s working burdens have been reduced, student’s time has been saved and it might be one of the reasons students are more willing to borrow books from their own university as it is not very troublesome and more satisfied.

3. How is RFID technology helping the Allianze University College of Medical Sciences library to detect and prevent the theft of books?

As we all know, through the establishment of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) entryways in libraries, RFID labeling is to a great degree valuable in anticipating burglary. The EAS entryways are connected to the library's reconnaissance station. Much the same as caution frameworks in stores, a library part endeavoring to leave with a unissued thing would trigger an alert, on the grounds that the doors can detect the book's RFID tag inside a scope of 1 meter without obstruction of attractive things. When somebody goes through with a unissued thing, an alert is sounded and the entryways are raised, a caution is sounded, and the camera at the doors takes a photo of the individual and sends it to the observation station. Burglary discovery is a remain solitary innovation that works freely of the library database, however it is an indispensable piece of dealing with the library at AUCMS.