The Chelsea District Library Board met on Tuesday, Nov. 18 and announced plans to convert to a radio-frequency identification (RFID) collection tagging system of the library’s entire collection by early next year.
Melanie Bell, the library’s Network Administrator, said that the transition to the new tagging system should be completed by February of 2015.
The new RFID system will replace an obsolete tagging system, and the new tags will cost 20 cents apiece, versus 75 cents apiece for the old tags, which have become obsolete, and are no longer available.
The library will use 3M’s RFID tags, and 3M representatives will retag the library’s entire 72,000 item collection over a 3-week period in January.
Two new self-checkout stations will accompany this transition, and checkout promises to be easier than ever after the new system is up and running.
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