We may be as far away as ever from universal use of radio frequency ID in the trade supply chain, but in the library sector it's now part of the woodwork. CILIP's conference yesterday was the sixth annual event, and although public sector cuts had obviously precluded attendance for some there was still an excellent crowd of interested and committed individuals from the public and academic library communities.
BIC was very much to the fore, with Martin Palmer of Essex Libraries (a member of our operational board) in the chair and our consultants Mick Fortune, Francis Cave and Simon Edwards - and myself - all speaking during the course of the day. The BIC/CILIP RFID in Libraries group has found itself in a pivotal position as the industry moves from the proprietary solutions which have generally prevailed in the past towards a more stable standards-based environment.
Martin Palmer made the point in his closing remarks that all new technologies undergo this shift as they become established and speculated on whether the same may come to be true of the digital supply chain...
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