For a glimpse of how RFID technology could transform stores, factories and people's everyday lives, you may only need to look as far as your local library. Hundreds of city and college libraries are ...

When the new library in Fontana—a fast-growing bedroom community in San Bernardino County, Calif.—opens in April, its collection of 150,000 books and other media will carry RFID tags. The library ...

Beginning in 2006, all public libraries in Munich, Germany, will begin replacing the bar code and electromagnetic security label system currently used for managing and tracking their collections with ...

Colloquy: Read the transcript of an online discussion about whether libraries’ increasing use of high-tech tags to keep track of books poses a threat to privacy and civil liberties by enabling library ...

I would like to commend The Chronicle for its August 6 article “Talking Tags.” The article dealt in a rational, balanced way with the topic of high-tech labels in library books. However, I would like ...