the first library management system built upon leadingedge radio frequency identification See RFID. (RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. ) technology. The ILS enables Farmington Library to deliver unprecedented services long desired by librarians. Farmington Library joins Rockefeller University Rockefeller University, philanthropic organization in New York City, founded 1901 as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by John D. Rockefeller for furthering medical science and its allied subjects and to make knowledge of these subjects available to the Library in New York New York, state, United States
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Checkpoint's RFID technology provides "intelligence" to each item in a library collection. A circulation circuit(TM), which is a paperthin, flexible tag, contains a 96K bit microprocessor chip and is permanently applied to each item in a library's collection. Individual itemlevel detail makes each item in a collection uniquely identifiable.