Free to roam, staff that carry the new LibraryPDA can help borrowers from anywhere in the library. Check out any barcode-based or Renaissance RFID-based materials and provide checkout or checkin transactions. Lines at the circulation desk can disappear in seconds. Naturally, a handheld that does circulation can also lookup borrower account station and view patron records. The system links via SIP2 today and other protocols are in development, thus it operates seamlessly with most ILS systems.
Whether you use barcodes or RFID tags, this powerful 10 ounce library solution is a perfect tool for inventory. It can store millions of items and work in a store and upload, store and forward, or real-time mode.
Finding holds, claims returned, and misshelved items has never been easier. And these functions operate during an inventory session to alert staff to the presence of items during a normal stock take process. Imagine several members of the library staff carrying these remarkable handhelds for daily circulation and search functions.
This handheld can provide the above functions for RFID tags and it can encode and verify tags. Undoubtedly you would have encoding stations to perform the 'heavy lifting' associated with high speed conversion, but isn't it nice to know that our staff stations can read and write tag data too?
