The Implementation of Koha and RFID Self Service Framework in Education Resource Centre

摘要

RFID technology is widely used in many areas including library. Library benefits from RFID technology to automate its core processes and offers services to its user including self-service. However, not all RFID implementation in library carried out successfully. It was reported thatRFID Self Service implementation can be chaotic, complicated and expensive. To account these issues, the implementation of RFID Self Service has been conducted in a controlled environment. This paper investigates the technology used in RFID Self Service implementation using Koha ILS, describesthe implementation setup and further explains internal SIP2 communication between Automated Circulation System (ACS) and Self Check (SC) which are critical in RFID Self Service process. The implementation has achieved its objective. An automated RFID Self-Service is successfully implementedand an implementation framework is established. This documented experience might be helpful to understand and uncover the complicated myth behind RFID Self Service system implementation.