APPLICATION OF RFID AT LIBRARY FOR CONTROL OF INFORMATION SERVICES

It is not just the ubiquitous computers that constitute technology in Library and Information<br>centers. There are intricate databases, electronic Information Services and quite recently RFID tags. Not<br>many patrons know of RFID tags. But in the library community there are questions of privacy. It is not just<br>Libraries that use RFID. RFID Technology could transform stores, factories every day lives of people.<br>This Technology offers a higher level of security system, so the choice now for users is whether they want<br>a chip inserted into their fatty tissues below the triceps or to have their palm veins recorded with an<br>infrared light. The safety precautions are important especially in the wake of 9/11 and that once has one<br>kind of technology, it is only natural that it will lead to another. Yet all this sounds too high tech. really!<br>This technology is a boon. This article presents an application of technology for library management. It<br>discusses the technology and need of RFID in a larger collection of Libraries and some special<br>Information Services.