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Automatic Identification and Data Collection Technology

Barcode technology, RFID, and smart cards are three important identification and data collection technologies used in libraries. Barcode technology has been used in libraries and businesses for 30 years to minimize errors, speed up processes, and reduce costs. It uses black and white bars and spaces to encode identifying information about items. RFID uses radio frequency signals to automatically identify and track items without needing direct line-of-sight like barcodes. Smart cards combine the capabilities of magnetic stripe cards and microchips to store user information and credentials for identification and access.

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Automatic Identification and Data Collection Technology

Barcode technology, RFID, and smart cards are three important identification and data collection technologies used in libraries. Barcode technology has been used in libraries and businesses for 30 years to minimize errors, speed up processes, and reduce costs. It uses black and white bars and spaces to encode identifying information about items. RFID uses radio frequency signals to automatically identify and track items without needing direct line-of-sight like barcodes. Smart cards combine the capabilities of magnetic stripe cards and microchips to store user information and credentials for identification and access.

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Automatic Identification and


Data Collection Technology

There are three important identification and data collection technologies


that are used in libraries, namely, bar code technology, RFID and Smart card.

Bar Code Technology


Bar code technology is being used in library and businesses for the past
30 years to minimize data entry errors, speed processes and reduce costs. Most
books, journals as well as other consumer products in the market carry black
and white thin and thick strips called barcodes. Barcode technology offers a
mechanism that can be used for identification, location and tracking of items
that are bar coded.
Barcode is not a new technology, it was introduced in 1940 although it was
first applied commercially in 1960’s as a method for tracking rail road cars.
Since, then, it has been used extensively in consumer industry, material
handling, industries and libraries. A bar code is a machine readable code
consisting of a series of bars and spaces printed in defined ratios. Bar code
symbologies are essentially alphabets in which different widths of bars and
spaces are combined to form characters and ultimately, forms a message.
Because there are many ways to arrange these bars and spaces, numerous
symbologies are possible. Common linear symbologies include UPC/EAN,
Interleaved 2 of 5 (I of 5), Codabar, Code 39 and Code 128. While each
symbology is in some way unique, the composition of a complete message (bar
code) is regardless of the symbology used. Barcode by itself, is not a system
but is an identification tool that enables accurate reading of data for sophisticated

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