I like this idea of waving the rabbit over the shelves to see what's
> missing or even mis-shelved. As a former Wal-Mart assistant manager often
> stuck with the layaway department during Christmas (now longer available),
> we would use Telxon scanners to quickly locate items in "bins" (shelves),
> and conduct periodic bin inventories.
>
> Are there any libraries that scan periodically their shelves for missing or
> misplaced books using such technology? It seems like it would be simple to
> implement (provided of course your library had the endless supply of money
> that most corporations have=). We would first scan a barcode at the top of
> the shelf, for example the range might be 300-398, so you scan two codes,
> one indicating that the books on this shelf should be between 300-398, and
> the second, the first book scanned should be 300. Then the librarian would
> start scanning the books beginning with the first book on the shelf and upon
> reaching the end of the shelf scan the last book and a barcode on the shelf
> to indicate that the scanner has completed scanning that particular stack.
> At the end a report would indicate what books are missing, of those which
> ones are checked out, and which ones are lost. It's an easy way to locate
> misshelved books as well since the Telxon would indictae whether or not the
> book scanned is actually cataloged between 300-398.
>
> It seems like a pilot could easily be conducted if a corporation like
> Telxon offered to lend a library refurbushed units. I do realize there are
> some opportunities with my suggestion that individual libraries may face
> (trying to get tiny little barcodes on the spine of a book for exampe), but
> I believe librarians have unique problem solving skills and can find
> creative cost-effective solutions to meet their needs.
>
> One last point, I really like the talking rabbit!
>
> Murat
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Bernd T. Wunsch <
> Bernd.T.Wunsch_at_nias.ku.dk> wrote:
>
>> >The key question is if it reads RFIDs that aren't its own. If you have
>> >to use theirs it would be very expensive. Although I was hoping to
>> >make an "inventory" system by which you pass your rabbit over your
>> >shelves and it tells you what is missing. You could of course do a
>> >check-in/check-out system too, for a small library. Indeed, sans
>> >computer.
>>
>> One Nabaztag of Checkin, the other for Checkout.. Would be nice.
>>
>> But No I have to admit that I haven't looked at the nabaztag RFID
>> capabilities at all. Although there has been some work to reverse engineer
>> it's message protocols. There's even a proxy, that will allow you to
>> interface directly with it, instead of going through the violet servers. So
>> perhaps the answer is already out there, on the big wide internets...
>>
>> -b.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Tim Spalding
>> Sent: Wed 3/25/2009 3:51 AM
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] A Rabbit, a webcam, a Library and a webservice...
>>
>> I'm waiting for mine so I can play. I ordered a bunch of their
>> colorful RFIDs. I didn't really understand the mini-rabbit.
>>
>> The key question is if it reads RFIDs that aren't its own. If you have
>> to use theirs it would be very expensive. Although I was hoping to
>> make an "inventory" system by which you pass your rabbit over your
>> shelves and it tells you what is missing. You could of course do a
>> check-in/check-out system too, for a small library. Indeed, sans
>> computer.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Bernd T. Wunsch
>> <Bernd.T.Wunsch_at_nias.ku.dk> wrote:
>> > Well I wish I could, but the stamp that we got (the little grey rabbit
>> in background on the video) doesn't seem to set the rabbit of. Now I'm not
>> sure if it's the tag or the Rabbit. But currently it doesn't work :-/
>> >
>> > But yeah, this would be much more fun using rfids. I guess violet
>> already does something like this with the French Childrens books that they
>> sell, which the rabbit can read aloud.
>> >
>> > -b.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Tim Spalding
>> > Sent: Wed 3/25/2009 3:40 AM
>> > To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> > Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] A Rabbit, a webcam, a Library and a webservice...
>> >
>> > Bernd,
>> >
>> > Did you look into the RFID "sniffer" in the Nabaztag? If a library has
>> > RFID in its books, that could moot the need for a barcode scanner.
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Edward M. Corrado
>> > <ecorrado_at_ecorrado.us> wrote:
>> >> OK, I'm not sure how useful this is for an academic library (though I
>> >> imagine it being a hit in the children's dept of a public library),
>> >> but this is pretty neat. Is your code available? I'm almost willing to
>> >> fork out $99 for one of these just to try it out.
>> >>
>> >> Edward
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Bernd T. Wunsch
>> >> <Bernd.T.Wunsch_at_nias.ku.dk> wrote:
>> >>> Hello NGC4Lib,
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I have been doing some serious mash-up work, and have created a
>> >>> "book-rating-reading-rabbit" for our library. Oh and he twitters
>> too...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> You can see him in action at:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://blip.tv/file/1915639
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> The techy bit:
>> >>>
>> >>> The Rabbit if of course a nabaztag/tag from Violet.
>> >>>
>> >>> I used the Amazon AWS to go from the UPC to the desired info.
>> >>>
>> >>> The barcode scanning comes from barcodepedia.com (I used a slightly
>> >>> changed edition of their flash-thingy).
>> >>>
>> >>> The glue that keeps it together runs on our webserver, and is all
>> simple
>> >>> php, curl, and the above mentioned flashfile.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> You can try it for yourself at: www.niaslinc.dk/kalle although I you
>> >>> won't get to see or hear the rabbit spring into action, he will post
>> >>> what he read aloud to his twitter stream at:
>> >>> http://twitter.com/kalle_kanin. He also logs any visitors to our
>> >>> website: http://www.asiaportal.info
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I've always wanted a small "magical amazon review box" in my library,
>> >>> where you could get extra info just by scanning a book. But I guess I
>> >>> had to build one myself before I got it :-)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>>
>> >>> - Bernd.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
>
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> Mr. Murat Yazan, MA, MLIS
>
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Mr. Murat Yazan, MA, MLIS
Received on Wed Mar 25 2009 - 08:30:39 EDT