This is a presentation I gave at a conference in 2012... it's based around what if we took these RFID uses in other situations and applied them to libraries.

1. Imagining The Future
Gary Green
Surrey County Council Library Service
gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk
CILIP RFID in Libraries Conference 2012

2. What ifs?
• Unusual & creative uses of
RFID technology beyond the
library sector.
• With a bit of tweaking could
we translate them into
library use?
• What benefits would it give
us & our library users?

3. Science of Survival Exhibition
• Interactive museum
exhibition based around
sustainable living & the
environment.
• Record visitor experience
throughout the exhibition &
choices they make.
• All visitors experience added
to build a combined
futurescape of people’s
choices at the exhibition.

4. Science of Survival Exhibition
Translated into library use...
• Visitor tracking: how do
your visitors use & navigate
the library?
• Best places in the library to
site stock & services.
• Show what’s happening in
your social network... the
library.

5. Interactive Sculpture Walk
• Sculptures placed in urban
areas of Northern California.
• RFID tags embedded in
sculptures.
• Using NFC enabled phones
people can leave messages
via the tags.
• People can also read
messages other have left.

6. Interactive Sculpture Walk
Translated into library use...
• Users add their emotional
experience to library
resources – reviews, ratings,
comments.
• Those experiences are
shared with other library
users – personal
recommendations.

7. Wine Selection
• RFID tagged wine bottles.
• Place selected wine on RFID
enabled shelf.
• Display more information
about wine than appears on
label – recommended food,
rating, how many other
customers selected it.
• Records user activity.

8. Wine Selection
Translated into library use...
• Value added information
about stock – press reviews,
upcoming author events,
recommendations based on
choice.
• Provides library with
information about how
people are using our
resources.

9. Cemeteries
• RFID tagged gravestones.
• NFC enabled phone.
• Visitors can learn more
about the person buried
there.
• Visitors leave messages &
record stories for others
who visit.

10. Cemeteries
Translated into library use...
• Users able to add
information to library
resources that they have
intimate knowledge of.
• Users able to fill in “missing
information” in our
resources.

11. Toys & Play
• RFID enabled soft toy act as
reader or trigger.
• Animal rescue centre:
provides multimedia
information about animals.
• Pling Plong: Audio player
pillow reads out audiobook
when book placed near it.
• LAMBERT: Sign language
support.

12. Toys & Play
Translated into library use...
• Link play to core
purposes of libraries:
education, language,
literacy.
• Alternative way to enjoy
books & story telling.

13. British Music Experience
• British pop music exhibition.
• RFID enabled entrance
ticket.
• Scan ticket to bookmark
parts of exhibition.
• Go home & enter ticket
number onto website & see
more about areas you
bookmarked.

14. British Music Experience
Translated into library use...
• Bookmark RFID tagged
library resources using NFC
enabled smartphone.
• Smartphone can share
information with others.
• Access their “bookmarks”
outside of the library
building.

15. The Nest Haunted House
• Theme park experience.
• Pulls in data from your
Facebook account
• Visitors wear RFID
badges which trigger
personalised “creepy”
responses throughout the
haunted house eg their
name appearing on
gravestone.

16. The Nest Haunted House
Library use…
• RFID enabled device
(smartphone) linked to
Facebook account.
• Use data from other
networks to suggests user
might want to borrow “this
item” that is in the library on
the shelf right now.
• Personalises experience.

17. Creative Uses of RFID Could…
• Identify how people use library services & resources.
• Enable library users to share opinions & experiences.
• Provide value added info beyond the physical library resource.
• Enable library users to contribute knowledge to collections.
• Assist in provision of libraries’ core purpose.
• Share library resources more easily.
• Personalise library services in real time.

18. Links & Image Credits
These links & more: http://www.delicious.com/ggstopflat/cilip_rfid_2012
Image Credits
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87745495@N00/4699082802/ Science Of Survival slide (jjutt/Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16102959@N00/3335072656/ Wine selection slide (whisperwolf/Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85494010@N00/72250668/ Interactive sculpture walk slide
(darkmatter/Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10607845@N03/3176581879/ Cemeteries slide (Bryan Burke/Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mackta/2431849657 The Nest Haunted House slide
(Tiffany.Ann.M/Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81373327@N00/177425082/ British Music Experience slide
(boston_camera/Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98799884@N00/3132326512/ Toys & Play slide (audreyjm529/Flickr)

19. Imagining The Future
Gary Green
Surrey County Council Library Service
gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk
CILIP RFID in Libraries Conference 2012